Two damning charts on income and poverty in the United States.

Obama thinks he’s punishing the “rich,” but the rest of us are paying the price.

What does World War I have to do with Obamanomics?

Malaise is in the future.

I’m not a big fan of Obamanomics. I don’t like the President’s class-warfare mentality on taxes. I don’t like his support for Keynesian spending policy. And I don’t like his costly expansions of government such as Obamacare. Indeed, I even like mocking his reflexive statism. That being said, I fully agree (albeit with some important caveats) with his observation that the United States […]

Have you ever wondered why, in a hypothetical match-up, the American people would elect Ronald Reagan over Barack Obama in a landslide? And have you ever wondered why Americans rate Reagan as the best post-WWII President and put Obama in last place? There are probably a couple of reasons for these polling numbers, but I suspect one reason […]

The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) released today its latest “Economics 101” video. Entitled, “Obamanomics: The Dismal Record,” the video explains how the President’s policies have caused a very anemic recovery, and contrasts the failed statism of Obamanomics with the successful policies of Reaganomics.

n previous posts, I’ve used data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank to show how Obamanomics is leading to very weak results, particularly compared to the economic boom triggered by Reaganomics. So you can imagine how I was anxious to participate when U.S. News & World Report asked me to contribute my two cents to […]

I’ve been a big critic of Obama’s policies on taxes, spending, regulation, and intervention, so you won’t be surprised that I argued on CNBC that his policies have made the economy worse. Here are two graphs, which I posted earlier this month, that make my point. The red lines show the economy is finally – […]

On this day last year, I posted two charts that I developed using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s interactive website. Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s. But perhaps that was an unfair comparison. Maybe the Reagan recovery started strong and then hit […]