Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything.
Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New (...)
THE fight for the Democratic presidential nomination seems to be winding down. It's not completely over, but the odds now overwhelmingly favor Barack Obama.
Assuming that Obama is the nominee, he'll lead a party that, judging by the usual (...)
AFTER Barack Obama's defeat in Pennsylvania, David Axelrod, his campaign manager, brushed it off: “Nothing has changed tonight in the basic physics of this race.”
He may well be right - but what a comedown. A few months ago the Obama campaign was (...)
WILL Barack Obama's now famous “bitter” quote turn out to have been a big deal politically? Frankly, I have no idea.
But here's a different question: Was Obama right?
Obama's comments combined assertions about economics, sociology and voting (...)
THE Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan has been tracking American economic perceptions since the 1950s. This week, the center released its latest estimate of the consumer sentiment index - and it was a stunner. Americans are more (...)
