While the Obama administration is out touting that unemployment grew at a slower rate, i.e. the number of new applications for unemployment benefits were less than anticipated, a much gloomier set of economic figures came out that signals the U.S. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you believe the unemployment rate is actually approaching the eight percent claimed in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics reports then you’ve bought into one of the greatest works of American fiction. The government’s numbers game is akin to saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The rich and the rest of us In the last 20 years the gap between the so-called rich top one percent of the population and the lower 99 percent has grown by nearly 40 percent, or so that is what […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…