A central theme of your book The Big Con--available at bookstores everywhere--is that first the Republican Party and then the nation has been sold a bill of goods by silly supply-siders whose theories of economic growth are wrong, refuted by reality, and yet somehow those espousing and implementing those policies keep getting elected with infuriating regularity...
Americans are postponing retirement and working longer, and the trend is especially pronounced in the Bay Area, according to an annual census survey of key social, economic and housing characteristics for the nation, states and larger cities...
Robert Samuelson points out wisely that the measured poverty rate is a misleading measure of economic progress when there is immigration (a common theme here at the Cafe)...
Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, who heads the group that dates U.S. recessions, said there is a ``significant risk'' of a downturn and urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates...
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