Sisyphus

Didn't we used to have one of those? · _{June 16, 2013 at 5:15am}

Misthiocracy

Do you have enough faith in the US government's competence to distinguish one from the other? · _{12 hours ago}

Richard Fulmer

Doesn't the fact that you're channeling Paul Krugman give you pause? · _{June 10, 2013 at 4:15am}

Edited on June 10, 2013 at 4:16am

iWc: The Fed is buying $85 billion in Treasuries per month - because nobody else wants them. We are issuing treasuries at that rate because spending is way out of control, and nobody is going to fix it.

You cannot square a circle. You cannot print money indefinitely. And if interest rates go up, the government will make Greece and Argentina and Cyprus look like pikers. They will seize everything they can, to keep buying debt.

You REALLY don' think inflation is a problem? Inflation is INEVITABLE. It is only a question of when it hits, and how hard. But it will be bad. It will crush retirement accounts and savings accounts.  It will destroy the value of pensions, public and private.  And it will lead to riots by those who currently rely on the spending power of the government handouts. · _{13 hours ago}

FloppyDisk90: Job growth continues at a moderate pace.

Low inflation.

Stocks (DJIA) at an all time high and headed back to its trend line.

Recovering (albeit slowly) housing market.

Not great, but I would hardly characterize that as a "disaster." · _{13 hours ago}

J Climacus: "the tepid growth continues to obscure the nation's most fundamental problems: too much government spending funded with too much borrowing..."

"In the meantime, James Pethokoukis admirably pushes back  against the notion that we need to have a tighter Federal Reserve..."

So we have a problem with government debt and spending, which was enabled by the Fed printing money to finance it, but the answer is to keep the Fed printing money to finance yet more debt and spending?

"Inflation will be a threat down the line if we do not get fiscal policy under control, but it is not a threat now, or in the near future..."

News flash: Fiscal policy will never get under control as long as the Fed continues to paper over the problem with money printing, allowing Congress/Obama to avoid facing difficult decisions. And inflation is here, despite bogus government statistics that pretend otherwise. · _{14 hours ago}

Larry3435

Isn't that an oxymoron?  Liberals who are honest with themselves and examine their assumptions? · _{May 26, 2013 at 4:19pm}

Pilli:former White House health adviser Robert Kocher. “Our expectation was that employers would offer high-quality insurance.”

These guys don't have a clue.  Forcing the cost of health insurance to go through the roof, promising a penalty if insurance isn't provided and then blinking in amazement when a company figures out a way to save money by doing neither...just clueless.

They think a business is a charitable organization by employers for employees. · _{6 hours ago}

Nick Stuart: Only one comment! 

Probably because Pejman nailed it. 

Again demonstrates why there needs to be a "like" button for the prime post as well as comments on the post. · _{13 hours ago}