By The Tim on December 9, 2009
Barack Obama yesterday: President Barack Obama outlined major new government stimulus and jobs proposals on Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession.” Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax breaks for small businesses and [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged debt, Economy, government_meddling, Obama, politics
By The Tim on November 23, 2009
Someone linked this up in the weekend open thread, and I thought it was a pretty good summary of why I am not convinced that we are presently on the road to recovery, so I thought I’d share it here. Are We Living In Zero Hour Now? If I tried to excerpt some of the [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged debt, economics, Economy, politics
By The Tim on May 12, 2009
I saw this on BoingBoing the other day, and thought it was interesting… Debt is not a good product I just had a great hour-long phone conversation with an old friend, Will Dana (now editor of Rolling Stone), who has strongly encouraged me to come up with one-liners that tell the truth about the economic/banking [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged BoingBoing, debt
