January 29, 2010
No earmarks in the Recovery Act? Please.
The president is — and has been for a year — playing semantics. The projects are earmarks.
January 27, 2010
Still not true: All economists did not support the stimulus
There is no consensus.
More fuzzy math on jobs numbers
Still fudging the stimulus stats.
January 24, 2010
Top advisers confused on jobs created numbers
Is it standard policy to make things up as they go?
January 11, 2010
‘Shovel ready’ was a load of … well, you know
No effect on jobs, created or saved.
December 3, 2009
February: Only government can end unemployment. Today: Only the private sector can end unemployment
Today the president said that economic recovery will “only” come from the private sector. That’s not what he said nine months ago.
October 1, 2009
Exaggerating the benefits of new fed ‘green fleet’
Government buys more fuel-efficient vehicles, but sells the old gas guzzlers.
August 7, 2009
Claiming job loss of a quarter million is ‘marked improvement’
According to President Obama, shrinking the GDP and unemployment heading to 10 percent are signs of a strengthening economy.
August 4, 2009
Biden: Now the stimulus is working … really!
In the course of about two months, Veep Joe Biden has gone from saying the stimulus package was working, to saying it wasn’t meant to “jolt” the economy and back to saying it’s working.
July 26, 2009
Now Biden says stimulus wasn’t meant to, you know, stimulate
Perhaps following the president’s lead, Veep Joe Biden today argues in The New York Times that the $787 billion stimulus package passed in February wasn’t meant to “jolt” the economy.
July 25, 2009
Easing rules for lobbyists on stimulus projects
Instead of requiring lobbyists to communicate with government officials in writing, the administration’s new rules will let them lobby for their projects at cocktail parties.
July 22, 2009
Claiming, again, that all economists supported stimulus package
President Obama today again said “no economists” disagreed with the stimulus package, even though at least 200 publicly opposed it back in January.
July 17, 2009
Using Google search stats as an economic indicator
President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, told the Peterson Institute for International Economics today that the U.S. economy is on its way out of the recession because, among other things, Google searches for “economic depression” have dropped down to baseline levels.
July 16, 2009
White House: Stimulus wasn’t really meant to stimulate the economy
According to “off-camera” comments made today by Obama administration officials, the president never intended for the economic stimulus package to actually stimulate the economy.
July 5, 2009
‘The truth is we … misread the economy’
Vice President Joe Biden this morning said the Obama administration “misread” how bad the economy had actually become — tell that to the nearly 10 percent of Americans who are unemployed.