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Any econonmists out there care to rip this apart? Or is this guy somehow correct and the economy is booming and consumers (i.e. jobless) are just not intelligent enough to see it?
1 posted on 09/07/2014 9:17:08 PM PDT by Is2C
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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Mark Twain. Please choose your favorite here.
27 posted on 09/07/2014 9:55:12 PM PDT by Fungi
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If you get enough jobless people so depressed they leave the job market, it lowers the government jobless rate.

Fagbammy is the most depressing person in the modern era.

Do the math.


30 posted on 09/07/2014 10:05:48 PM PDT by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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The idiot that wrote this simply wants to look at the unemployment rate as a measure of job creation. Bad idea. We have the lowest workforce participation rate since the late 1970s, indicating the reason for the lower unemployment rate is citizens giving up looking for work.

But, why not measure job creation by net jobs created?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms And, let's not forget a lot of the jobs being created a part-time jobs under Obama due to the impact of Obamacare and the desire of employers to cut hours under 30 hours a week. That is why median incomes are down under Obama for all but the top 10%.

As far as the stock market goes, it solely the result of the Federal Reserve printing money which is increasing inflation and will, ultimately, increase it significantly. Under Reagan, the Federal Reserve was raising interest rates to decrease inflation.

31 posted on 09/07/2014 10:12:56 PM PDT by Kazan
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Delusional..


32 posted on 09/07/2014 10:14:38 PM PDT by JSDude1
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Those lived through the Reagan Presidency know that the unemployment rate was high because there were so many jobs being created people were joining the work force that hadn’t worked in 10 years. Of course these people with a lack of experience had false starts and contributed to this unemployment number.

The entire difference was mood, people were confident that they could get a job and the future was bright.


33 posted on 09/07/2014 10:17:01 PM PDT by dila813
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Those lived through the Reagan Presidency know that the unemployment rate was high because there were so many jobs being created people were joining the work force that hadn’t worked in 10 years. Of course these people with a lack of experience had false starts and contributed to this unemployment number.

The entire difference was mood, people were confident that they could get a job and the future was bright.


34 posted on 09/07/2014 10:17:46 PM PDT by dila813
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Just say NO to drugs.


35 posted on 09/07/2014 10:19:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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Read this...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2011/05/05/reaganomics-vs-obamanomics-facts-and-figures/


36 posted on 09/07/2014 10:26:33 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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I was making substantially more in the Reagan years than I am making now. And that’s in nominal dollars.


37 posted on 09/07/2014 10:40:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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I’m skeptical of any article that takes TWO liberal pixies to write.


40 posted on 09/07/2014 10:54:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't just stand there! Help fight political correctness!)
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part time and working at fast food restaurants. without those categories we’d be over 10% unemployed right now.


41 posted on 09/07/2014 10:56:51 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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The pain is so bad out there that you can feel it in the air.

And then these liberals rub salt into the wound.

42 posted on 09/07/2014 10:59:10 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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What kind of drugs are they on??


43 posted on 09/07/2014 10:59:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Something tells me there’s a major election coming in two months. Gotta get the SHEEP in line to vote Democrat!


45 posted on 09/07/2014 11:37:27 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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The brothers Grimm had nothing on these ass hat clowns.

They make “stuff” up faster than any liars I’ve ever seen.


46 posted on 09/08/2014 12:02:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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There IS only one rational explanation for this book and article in Forbes. From the Freeper addenda to the new ICD-10:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

47 posted on 09/08/2014 12:15:44 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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What a joke!

I have even met die hard Obama supporters that admit the economy sucks....

No question this writer is smoking Crack and drinking the Kool Aid.

The Administration should hire this guy as their Joseph Goebbels. This is clearly B.S. propaganda.

Why does Forbes even publish this garbage?

49 posted on 09/08/2014 1:56:27 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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The Obamaists changed the criteria underlying the unemployment rate in 2005 or 2006, IIRC. The numbers are not comparable because of that.


50 posted on 09/08/2014 3:01:43 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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Forbes in the tank with these commies


52 posted on 09/08/2014 3:57:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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I work for a major bank and yes, we have employees, but most are part-time or temps who have been wanting more hours or to get hired for months or in some cases, years. Our department was supposed to have grown 300% and we’ve been stuck with about 10-12 employees since 2009. Some days we run out of work at 11:30 in the morning. Now, I don’t claim to be an economist, but the economy - it still sucks, folks.


53 posted on 09/08/2014 4:00:24 AM PDT by MaggiesPitchfork
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