Economics

Obama and jobs

Sheila Liaugminas | 15 June 2011

All the news stories seem to be about his.

Bad news for Obama

Sheila Liaugminas | 05 June 2011

Trouble is, it's bad news for America.

Feds don’t buy groceries?

Sheila Liaugminas | 21 March 2011

We’re supposed to trust them to fix the economy, but are they out of touch with what constitutes ‘the economy’?

Just call the budget…an investment

Sheila Liaugminas | 02 February 2010

Why didn’t the president think of that? After all, politicians are so good at spin. "“Don’t talk about the deficit as a historic deficit. Talk about it as a historic investment. Make the subject record unemployment relief, and record state relief, and record job spending, and record small business investments, and record tax cuts. Tell a positive story you want to defend rather than a negative story you want to apologize for."