Companion piece to “Obama apologist bingo”: Did he really think the bailed-out banks — the banks that caused the crash — would lend the sort of money needed for massive re-employment projects? More here.
Tag: unemployment
Japan’s job-killing robots
Did you think Godzilla was scary? Wait until Nextage emerges fully grown from Japan:
Japanese firm Kawada Industries is on the leading edge of a growing industry that threatens to become a major disruptive force in the coming years: automated labor.
More here.
A peculiar way to measure jobs growth
Robert Reich is a commonsensical guy, and so what if he sometimes injects false optimism into his commentaries? You can tell he’s merely trying not to be a gloom merchant, that the jobs picture is as bleak to him as to any other realistic person. More here.
Low wages = no recovery. Suck on that, Rick.
He walks tall, he talks tall, he sucks a mean corn dog in Iowa but, as Paul Krugman notes, Rick Perry is merely another Republican liar when it comes to economic recovery…