Let Them Eat Cake: As Hostess Workers Get Hurt, Bakery Union Bosses (& Their Kids) Do Well
By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | November 21st at 09:00 AM |

Eighteen thousand Americans are now without jobs to put bread on their tables (pun intended). Yet, Frank Hurt will not be hurt in the least by the strike he led his members into taking, or the resulting unemployment of both his members, as well as other Hostess employees.
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Barack Obama’s Final Jobs Report Before the Election
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | November 2nd at 10:00 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the October unemployment report, the Experience Francis had during Super Storm Sandy and how the DC/NY bubble has ignored the economic realities of average Americans.
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What Would Four More Years of Obama Mean for the Economy?
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | October 29th at 10:00 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss third quarter GDP, what it may predict for October jobs numbers and what we can expect from the economy if Obama wins a second term.
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Our Stagnant “Recovery”
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | October 22nd at 10:00 AM |
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the lack of a real recovery, the policies holding back businesses and if we can bring America back. We’re brought to you by Stephen Clouse and Associates and The Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell. If you’d like to email us, | Read More »
Can We Print Our Way Out of Debt and Back to a Booming Economy?
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | October 8th at 10:00 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss continued fallout from Friday’s jobs report, the mysterious United States Note, and whether the Treasury Department could print our country out of debt and back on sound economic footing.
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Obama’s Perfectly Timed and Absolutely Miraculous Jobs Report Makes No Sense
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | October 5th at 10:01 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the coincidentally miraculous jobs report for September and why these numbers make no sense.
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Has America Lost its Competitive Edge?
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | September 21st at 09:59 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss structural changes in our economy, the impact it has had on our country’s competitive edge, and how we can turn it around.
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Bernanke Opens The Spigots
By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | September 14th at 02:00 PM |
I’ve taken a deep breath since the Fed announcement of QE III and no longer care whether or not The Ben has a bumper sticker supporting Obama/Biden on the bumper of The Benmobile. I can’t stop the man, so the deeper question is one of whether he has improved my existence or made it worse. I disagree with many here and opine that QE III will make America a worse place in three respects. It will make us all more susceptible to moral hazard, it will make politicians less accountable, and it will fail in its stated objective of ever improving unemployment.
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Will QE3 Help Obama Win in November?
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | September 14th at 09:02 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the Fed’s decision to begin QE3, what effects it may have on the economy, and whether it will have enough impact by November to help Obama.
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The European Central Bank’s Unlimited Purchasing Plan
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | September 10th at 09:00 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss more on Friday’s jobs report, the impact of a capital gains tax hike, and the ECB’s plans for unlimited bond purchasing.
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Dismal Jobs Report Shows Lowest Labor Force Participation in Last 30 Years
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | September 7th at 08:20 AM |
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss today’s August jobs report, the decimated state of America’s labor force, and how Obama could sell “stay the course” in face of these numbers.. We’re brought to you by Stephen Clouse and Associates and The Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell. If you’d like to email us, you | Read More »
What Mitt Romney Could Tell You That Jay Carney Can’t Seem To Explain
By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) | August 31st at 12:30 PM |
The LA Times put up a chart that wasn’t what the Obama Campaign hoped anyone would consider an earth-shattering piece of analysis. As unemployment has stayed over 8% the past 3 ½ years, family income has fallen. Ricardo Lopez of The LA Times offers us an analysis of the carnage.
American household median annual incomes have fallen 4.8% since the recession ended, from $53,508 in June 2009 — when the recession technically ended — to $50,964 in June of this year, a study found.
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Jim Pethokoukis on Unemployment and Breaking Up the Banks
By: Brad Jackson (Diary) | August 3rd at 10:01 AM |
Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca and Jim Pethokoukis to discuss the July unemployment report and calls to break up the big banks. We’re brought to you as always by Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at bjackson[at]coffeeandmarkets.com. We | Read More »
DNC Chair channels Obama’s ‘doing fine’: ‘Happy’ with private sector job growth
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | July 8th at 12:20 PM |
During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz channeled President Obama’s infamous “the private sector is doing fine” comment, saying she is “happy” with job growth in the private sector: Fox News’ John Roberts: “So then is the suggestion that we should just do keep doing the same thing? There’s that old definition of doing the same thing over and | Read More »
For the Thirtieth Time, the Obama Administration Admonishes Voters Not to Read Too Much into One Month’s Jobs Numbers
By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary) | July 6th at 08:19 PM |
In case you missed it, the June jobs report is out, and the numbers are not good (though the Obama administration had a ready-made – and well-worn – excuse ready to go at a moment’s notice; more on that below). As Daniel Horowitz wrote here this morning: The headline number of the establishment survey is that only 80,000 net jobs were created last month, about | Read More »