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Consumer Metrics Institute News: July 30, 2010 – Inside the New GDP Numbers John Nyaradi Wall Street Sector Selector Follow this user

Newt Gingrich warned Thursday that President Obama and congressional Democrats appear to be on the verge of repeating the same mistakes that aggravated the Great Depression, adding that letting the Bush tax cuts expire would prove "very dangerous" for the nation's economy.

A life of booze, fags and slothfulness may be enough to earn your doctor's disapproval, but there is one last hope: a repeat prescription of mates and good conversation.

Warren Harding, newly elected President in 1920, appointed the enormously successful Pittsburgh banker Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury, with the duty of fixing the economy. Mellon adopted what became the supply-side economic formula.

* Virtually everything you look at is broken and unfixable, from both a mathematical and political standpoint. * All democratic welfare states are insolvent and incapable of meeting their obligations. * Sovereign defaults are likely and will likely occur in domino f …

Economists explain how the bailouts saved a masive depression

I say kudos to Erick Erickson for not simply relying on lazy anti-tax rhetoric and actually attempting to delve in and make the case that the Bush administration's tax policies led to; good macroeconomic outcomes.

Stocks are no longer mirrors of national economies; they are not — as is so commonly said — magical forecasting mechanisms.