From Hope to Hopelessness: Obama’s Economy Has 88 Million “Not In Labor Force”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 08:30 AM  | 

It was less than a year ago that Barack Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe said: After 2½ years in office, President Obama now “owns” the economy as an issue, according to top adviser David Plouffe, who added he was confident that voters understand that recovering from a devastating recession Mr. Obama inherited takes time. “Of course he does,” Mr. Plouffe told NBC’s “Today” show host Matt | Read More »

The Infamous, Updated, Romer-Bernstein Chart.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 7th at 09:00 AM  | 

Via James Pethokoukis comes an updated version of the graph (originally created by Obama’s economic advisers Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein) that has been succinctly countering (for years) any and all attempts to argue that the misnamed ‘stimulus’ worked: For those without access to the picture: it’s a modified version of this graph, which was used to sell the idea that with a stimulus, unemployment | Read More »