Econ Comments
Washington Times | KNIGHT: Obama’s jobs machine
Milk taxpayers and - poof - you get new workers.
WSJ | Three Policies That Gave Us the Jobs Economy
Capital gains tax cuts, deregulation to allow easier investment in growth companies, and the protection of intellectual property created a boom.
Washington Times | EDITORIAL: The income problem
Big-government economic policies are impoverishing America.
Washington Times | MURRAY & BIER: A plan to chill employment
Raising minimum wage in recession makes it less likely employers will hire.
WSJ | Where the Jobs Are
Democrats are wrong to oppose the president on permitting new energy projects.
Blogs
EconLog | The Myth of the Median Worker
Russ Roberts continues to engage with Tyler Cowen on whether there has been stagnation.
Marginal Revolution | The decline in gross job gains
The levels of gross job gains and gross job losses prior to the 2001 recession are noticeably higher than the levels following the 2001 recession.
Greg Mankiw's Blog | The Increased Role of the Minimum Wage
The minimum wage has a much larger role now than it did three years ago, in large part because of the legislated increase in the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour.
WSJ: Real Time Economics | Number of the Week: Millions Cut Off Without Unemployment Extension
2,153,700: The number of jobless people currently receiving unemployment benefits who will lose them by Feb. 11, 2012 if an extension isn’t enacted by Congress by the end of the year.
