by Dan Mitchell | Sep 8, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
I recently posted four charts eviscerating Obama’s record on jobs. My Cato colleague, Caleb Brown, has a good complement to those charts. He’s put together a short video looking at how government spending and regulation undermine job creation. Caleb says he will be...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
President Obama will be unveiling another “jobs plan” tomorrow night, though Democrats are being careful not to call it stimulus after the failure of the $800 billion package from 2008. But just as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, bigger government is...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 5, 2011 | Blogs, Economics
President Obama may have a buddy-buddy relationship with big labor, but he’s no friend to ordinary workers. Here are four damning pieces of evidence. 1. The unemployment rate remains above 9 percent according to the Labor Department data released on Friday. This is...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending
We all know about the wretched failure of Obama’s stimulus, and we can update the chart showing that the joblessness rate is two-and-one-half percentage points higher than the White House claimed it would be at this point if we flushed $800 billion down the Washington...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I don’t have my finger on the pulse of black America, and I don’t pretend to understand the emotional and symbolic value of a black President to the African-American community. But I do know that the big-government policies of the Obama Administration have not been...
