Economic Growth on Townhall

• Obama renews focus on jobs, economic growth with Texas trip Thu May 9
  Reuters News
• White House cuts long-run economic growth forecast Wed Apr 10
  Reuters News
• US Economy Adds 88K Jobs, Rate Drops to 7.6 Pct. Fri Apr 5
  Washington, D.C.
  U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring. ... more
• Black Leaders Open Fire on Obama Over Unemployment Fri Mar 29
  Donald Lambro
  Barack Obama's failed job policies are facing bitter criticism from African-American leaders who say black unemployment has grown worse under his presidency. ... more
• New Census Data Show People Go Where the Money Is Mon Mar 25
  Michael Barone
  What parts of America have been growing during these years of sluggish economic growth? </P><P>Answers come from comparing the Census Bureau's just-released estimates of metropolitan area populations in July 2012 with the results of the Census conducted in 2010. ... more
• Experts: House Budget Spurs Growth, Senate Version Spikes Debt Wed Mar 20
  Guy Benson
• GOP Must Launch Reality Offensive Fri Mar 15
  David Limbaugh
  How can anyone take President Obama seriously when he tells us our national debt is no big deal? Well, we have to take him seriously, because, unserious thinking or not, he has serious power, including the power to obstruct progress on reducing the debt. ... more
• Will Obamat Reluctantly Buy Into Base-Broadening Tax Reforms That Also Lower the Rates? Fri Mar 8
  Donald Lambro
  President Obama has been pleading with House Republican leaders lately to raise government revenues by overhauling the tax code to erase loopholes and other income exemptions. ... more
• Recovery Leaves One Red State With the Blues Fri Mar 8
  Matt Towery
  Being a native of Atlanta, I always resented media depictions and popular culture images of Georgia as a state where everyone wore overalls, had three teeth in their head, and liberally used terms like "ain't" and "gonna" in their daily vocabulary. ... more
• Spending Cuts May Be Answer to Slow Economic Growth Thu Mar 7
  Michael Barone
  The Dow set a new high on Tuesday, but the larger economy is a different story. What if today's sluggish economic growth turns out to be the new normal? That's the unsettling question asked by some of our most creative economic thinkers. ... more
• China eyes 2013 economic growth of 7.5 percent: Premier Wen Mon Mar 4
  Reuters News
• U.S. economic growth gauge slips in latest week: ECRI Fri Feb 15
  Reuters News
• Fewer Dollars and Babies Threaten Social Programs Mon Feb 4
  Michael Barone
  Our major public policies are based on the assumption that America will continue to enjoy growth. Economic growth and population growth. ... more
• From Solid Recovery to Modest Recovery to No Recovery in 24 Hours Fri Feb 1
  Donald Lambro
  When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. ... more
• Stagnation, the New Normal Thu Jan 31
  David Harsanyi
  So, U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year. The U.S. economy unexpectedly posted a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2012 -- for the first time since the recession -- "defying" expectations that economic growth is in our future. ... more
• Economy Shrinks Due to Military Cuts Wed Jan 30
  Kevin Glass
• Analysis: Immigration reform could boost U.S. economic growth Tue Jan 29
  Reuters News
• Does Poverty Still Matter? Fri Jan 25
  Mona Charen
  The Republican Party is picking up the pieces. Speaking of the ticket's loss for the first time since the election, Rep. Paul Ryan noted that many voters "don't think or know that we have good ideas" on fighting poverty and "helping people move up the ladder of life." ... more
• Detached From Reality Mon Jan 7
  Star Parker
  Here’s two ways to think about the “fiscal cliff” deal that just took place in Washington. ... more
• Mr. President, the Fiscal Cliff Deal Was Not “the Right Thing to do For Our Country” Thu Jan 3
  Donald Lambro
  Let's be clear what the "fiscal cliff" deal does and doesn't do. It permanently preserves the bulk of George W. Bush's tax cuts for most Americans, but it does not offer desperately needed new incentives to revive a weak economy and jobless labor market. ... more
• How to Resolve the Fiscal Cliff? Elementary, My Dear Watson! Wed Jan 2
  Ralph Benko
  As this column is being written America is preparing to head down the, theatrically styled, “Fiscal Cliff.” That “cliff” really is the chicken roost of 40 years of mostly disappointing — and more than a decade of catastrophic — economic growth. Lousy growth leads to a diminished tax base, capable of producing only anemic tax revenues. ... more
• WSJ Editor: "The Fairest System Of Them All Would Actually Be A Flat Tax" Tue Dec 18
  New York, NY
  Stephen Moore talks about how we can achieve greater equality while protecting the economy. ... more
• Rwanda finance minister says aid cuts may dent economic growth Wed Dec 5
  Reuters News
• The Way Ahead Fri Nov 16
  Ed Feulner
  For the first time since the early days of our republic (Jefferson-Madison-Monroe), we’ll have three straight two-term presidents. ... more
• Recession or Real Recovery? Fri Nov 2
  Phil Kerpen
  The economy is limping along at an official 2 percent growth rate - and even that is overstated because it includes a 9.6 percent increase in deficit-financed government spending. We're already in the recession red zone, and the largest tax hike in American history looms January 1 if Congress fails to reach an agreement to cancel it. In this contest, the presidential election boils down to a remarkably simple choice: recession or real recovery. ... more

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