Blogs: Jobless Recovery

Cut spending intended to help the middle class and the poor while cutting taxes for the wealthy. We all saw how well that worked under Bush. Jobless recovery, growing concentration of wealth, less constant dollar income for most of us, ...

In New York, Home Star will be especially important for transforming a “jobless recovery” into a real recovery, and especially effective in achieving energy and housing cost reductions. This short paper outlines how Home Star can ...

The Obama administration in the U.S. has sought to keep the issue from getting politically out of hand, but the imminence of mid-term U.S. Congressional elections in which 'a jobless recovery' is the central issue is making that more ...

Similarly, in our current jobless recovery, credit conditions for businesses have improved, interest rates are accommodative and M&A has picked up dramatically. Indeed, the biggest conglomerates in the Industrials ETF (XLI) are ...

One of the reasons we are experiencing a jobless recovery is that America's largest corporations are holding onto their cash instead of investing in new technology. That's precisely the transformative capital that we need to create the ...

Bush was tarred in 2004 for a "jobless recovery" when unemployment hovered near 6 percent. It's now almost 10 percent, and Obama still harps about "jobs saved." 2) Obama as Bush. Candidate Obama demagogued Bush on a variety of issues, ...

The jobs we are shedding are not coming back, as the White House economist Lawrence Summers tacitly acknowledges when he talks of a “jobless recovery.” The belief that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the ...

Economists disagree on the extent to which the high jobless rate is due to mismatches like Kocherlakota described, or whether it is primarily due to the economy's deep recession and sluggish recovery. The Fed said in its Beige Book of ...

Economists disagree on the extent the high jobless rate is due to mismatches of the sort Kocherlakota described, or whether it is primarily due to the economy's deep recession and sluggish recovery. The unemployment rate will likely ...

As people struggling to find work in this jobless recovery know that is far from the truth. The dynamics of labor markets were analyzed in a very unenlightening (but orthodox) way of supply and demand. There is a fixed supply of labor, ...