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How Will the Markets React to Obama’s Jobs Speech?

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On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Barack Obama’s jobs speech, the chances of his proposal passing Congress and how the markets will react.

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  • publious

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2MzlKURW8

  • Common_Cents

    It’s business as usual, as the economy wilts further under this impotent administration.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Yes of course the media tries to find someone or something else to account for the curious coincidence that Obama’s proposals for pumping up the economy were greeted with a big down day.

    The #1 excuse, with validity, is instability in Europe. Alas, the issue there is govts grappling with … too much debt and deficits.

    More cowbell keynesianism will not fix the economy but send us faster down the path to where countries like Greece are.

    Are markets wanting that? The verdict is: NO.

  • edintexas

    There was a speech?

  • lastgopinillinois

    The jobs proposal includes:
    Renewing payroll-tax cuts So, we are going to cut FICA payroll deductions for both employers and employees by 50% at a time when the coffers for Social security has already red-lined and Medicare has already suffered 500million loss to fund medicare, with more cuts on the way from the supercommittee, (and when the retirement community is growing every day, while fewer workers are left to pay for them) Man this sounds like a REAL good deal, as long as you’re not a senior citizen.

    Tax credits for new hires (long-term unemployed and returning veterans)
    Short term schemes will not boost any confidence in the free-market. Economic growth requires a long term tax structure that business can plan hiring and expansion around

    Tax Reform/Deform? proposes possibly lowering the corporate tax rates in exchange for dropping all tax deductions and subsidies. At the same time raise taxes on the wealthy (individual incomes)? All this does is shift the tax burden from corporations to wealthy individuals who own corporations. Possibly causes irrepairable damage to small business due to increased taxes and shifts more burden on to the middle class.

    Everything else is deficit spending to the tune of about 440 Billion dollars with no other benefit besides a few short-term public and union jobs.

    Summary: No economic benefit, but adds to the deficit. No economic stimulus detected here !