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Posted on 11/05/2012 4:46:58 PM PST by richardb72
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s book, “This Time is Different,” has become the bible of the Obama administration. Their claim that recoveries after financial crises are naturally much slower than other recoveries has given President Obama a lot of cover. Their argument may be widely accepted by the media but has not been so readily accepted by economists.
Reinhart and Rogoff lashed out at academic critics a couple of weeksago with an opinion piece in Bloomberg and again recently on CNN, attacking economists who disagree with them as blinded by support for Mitt Romney.
Our current recovery has been the weakest since at least World War II. Thirty-nine months since the recovery started in June 2009, job growth has been only 2 percent. During the average recovery since 1970, job growth over the first 39 months has averaged over 8 percent. The current recovery has failed to keep up with the growth in the working age population. Unlike past recoveries, much of the drop in the unemployment rate simply reflects people giving up looking for work. And there is no doubt there was a financial crisis.
But the financial crisis is not the explanation for the slow recovery. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I can explain it in one word: Democrats.
I can explain it in five words: egomaniacal university professors in charge
Uhhhh, tax, spend, overregulate, reward the nonproductive and strangle the productivity and you get what we’ve got.
John Taylor has it right. DUMB and RECKLESS policies by
Obama. Now we have the fiscal cliff and Obama wants to drive over it.
nobody, i MEAN NOBODY, is going to hire people when they can't plan ANYTHING because they don't know what economic horror the boy will unleash next...
This time is EXACTLY THE SAME as the great depression ,, as others have said ,, egomaniacal college professors in charge ... theories that “MUST BE RIGHT” because we’re the smartest and are infallible even though we have not one day of practical experience.
Common Sense is Uncommon
TT
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