Monthly Archives: September 2010

Christina Romer admits policy recommendations guided economic analysis

Posted on September 2, 2010 by

Way back when campaign-Obama was assembling his dream team of advisors and his team of rivals, the media was in awe of his choices. The soundness and level headedness of his selections — from academia to hard nosed battle tested policy pols —  supposedly proved that campaign-Obama was to lead a pragmatic, solution-first administration. The choices would lead to the actual working mechanics of his campaign rhetoric in which he would rise above the “smallness of our politics” and take America with him. Continue reading →

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Good government should equate to 'background noise.'

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Jeff’s latest post provoked a little thought in my otherwise dormant brain bucket. His basic premise was that the our little tinkerers in DC, with all their grandiose ideals, have pushed us to the brink of financial oblivion due to copious amounts of pandering and constant interference. They either lack the ability to reason or are making a conscious choice to ignore the fact that their litany of failed attempts to legislate our way to utopia has been derailed. Continue reading →

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