Economy & Business:

Housing Bubble?, July 13, 2005
Though rapidly rising new home prices have some speculating that real estate is in a "housing bubble" that will soon crash, there may be another good reason for prices to be so much higher today than a few years ago: New homes are larger, and come with more features, than homes of a few years ago. "By some measures, houses are still cheap," says this MSNBC story....

A Fair Tax, June 27, 2005
Way back in December I wrote a post about a proposal for something called the Automated Payment Transaction Tax as a replacement for, essentially, the entire federal tax code. A reader has posted a new comment there today that I thought worth bringing to your attention......

Promise and Peril on the Economic Sea, June 13, 2005
Jeff Cornwall has a must-read post on the momentous changes taking place within the U.S. economy, and the perils ahead.We are entering a new period of potentially major entrepreneurial economic growth. If we don't get it right from a public policy stand point, this country will be in serious trouble within the next twenty years as entrepreneurial activity may not reach the levels we need to move the economy into its next period of long-term...

Latte Grande, June 07, 2005
Over at The Entrepreneurial Mind, Jeff Cornwall is attempting to answer the question, "What is a small business?" The issue is how does the government define the "small" in "small business" for the purpose of various government programs, regulations, etc. Now, I don't know the exact definition but I think I know a small business when I see one. Click image to enlarge....

Clause Wits, May 02, 2005
Can the state of Tennessee interfere in federal international economic policy? The constitutional answer would seem to be "No," but that isn't stopping some Democrats in the state legislature, backed by Labor, from trying. The Nashville City Paper reports that the Tennessee legislature is "considering a bill that would require an act by the legislature to consent to participate in any provision of a national trade agreement that affects the state." The bill is being...

Success, April 22, 2005
Entrepreneurial expert Jeff Corwall: "Success takes many forms."...

A New "Transportation Age" ???, April 20, 2005
Jeff Cornwall thinks the next big engine of economic growth in America will be a new era of innovation in transportation.What shape it may take is not clear. It never really is clear anytime we are in a time of revolutionary change. In the beginning of the information age we had no idea which companies or even which technologies would prevail in the market. Who would have guessed twenty years ago that I would be...

April 15th, April 15, 2005
Jeff Cornwall has some thoughts about taxes - and a cool updated blog design. I wonder what Cornwall would think about what Matt Yglesias wrote about the death tax....

The Price of A Clue, April 15, 2005
Matt Yglesias is an idiot, and a rude one at that, at least when the issue is estate taxes. Read this post, including his very offensive call for the government to "f..k the small businessman" by continuing to levy the estate tax. [Hat tip: Instapundit, who has more thoughts on the estate tax here.] Yglesias reduces the estate tax to a math equation and says that someone who inherits a business ought to be happy...

Run for the Border, April 13, 2005
Polipundit has a good proposal for how to end illegal immigration....

America's Innovation Engine, March 24, 2005
It's hard to argue with this....

It's Your Business, March 09, 2005
If you are an entrepreneur or interested in the economic health of our country you ought to be reading Jeff Cornwall every day....

Book Review, February 08, 2005
It may sound odd, but a book I'm currently reading about the nitty gritty details of personal financial planning is turning out to be a very moving book about the greatness of America and the still-attainable reality of the American Dream. David Bach's Start Late, Finish Rich is the very solid follow-up to his mega-bestseller The Automatic Millionaire. Subtitled, <>i>A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age, the book doesn't break new ground...

Sticking To It, February 05, 2005
USA Today headline: Bush continues push for Social Security overhaul Because it's been, like a whole three days now, and youddathunk he'd have given up by now, what with the media and the Democrats having already rejected it and all.....

Sign the Petition, January 30, 2005
If you favor Social Security reform and want to help President Bush get it done, please sign the petition....

Financial Exhibitionist, January 25, 2005
Here's a business blogger who is a financial exhibitionist. Fascinating. I'll be checking it regularly....

Whither Tax Reform?, January 19, 2005
Jeff Cornwall says it looks like major tax reform is unlikely. I hope he's wrong....

"The Next Great Battle Between Socialism and Capitalism", January 10, 2005
Foreign Policy magazine says: "The next great battle between socialism and capitalism will be waged over human health and life expectancy. As rich countries grow richer, and as healthcare technology continues to improve, people will spend ever growing shares of their income on living longer and healthier lives."...

Stop the Presses, December 13, 2004
The Tennessean actually editorializes in favor of less regulation and smaller government....

RIP, December 07, 2004
Billionaire Jay Van Andel, co-founder of the controversial Amway - which spawned the direct-sales industry niche known as network marketing now used by dozens of companies to sell a variety of products via networks of customers who also serve as independent marketing reps in exchange for a share of the profits - died today at his home near Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the age of 80. Van Andel was a major philanthropist in the Grand...

The Main Thing, October 31, 2004
The Tennessean interviews a series of "Main Street" business owners regarding the political issues important to them in this election and finds a common desire for lower taxes and less-costly healthcare insurance. If these people are paying attention, every last one of them will vote for the reelection of President Bush....

How To Wreck the Healthcare System, October 19, 2004
MedPundit's post comparing John Kerry's proposed national healthcare plan with the very real and very disastrous TennCare plan in Tennessee is so good, I couldn't pick a slice to excerpt. So I'm republishing it in its entirety, with all links intact, in the extended-entry portion of this post. I hope MedPundit doesn't mind. Click the 'read more' link....

Big Deal, October 06, 2004
Interesting story in Business 2.0 by Om Malik that asserts that the new road to riches in high tech is to "build a company cheap, flip it fast, repeat."...

Imagine That, September 15, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has some economic data that the news media ignored. I'm not sure why the media ignored it - the data shows good growth in an important sector of the economy. You would think the media would be working hard to present the public a complete and accurate picture of the economy here in the waning days of the presidential campaign....

The Budget Is NOT The Economy, September 07, 2004
Here's some news from the presidential campaign that indicates that John Kerry has no clue what he is talking about. The story says Kerry pointed to the "record" $422-billion-dollar budget deficit predicted by the Congressional Budget Office as a new sign of Bush's inability to run the economy. Memo to Sen. Kerry: The federal budget is not the economy. Repeat: "the budget" is not a synonym for "the economy." The budget is the government's annual...

I Blame The Bush Tax Cuts, September 03, 2004
Post-Convention Bush Buoyed by Jobs Numbers - Reuters. Strong job growth in July, unemployment fell to 5.4 percent as there were 144,000 new jobs created. The Bush economic policies have created 1.7 million new jobs in the past year - and that's just if you count factory and big-employer jobs tracked by the government's Payroll Survey. Overall employment, thanks to a surging small-business and entrepreneurial sector, has risen much faster. Since August 2003, the Bush...

Trade Deficit?, August 30, 2004
New blogger Scott Harris has a really fine examination of trade deficits and mercantilism and the nature of the global economy. I've never thought trade deficits were all that much of a bad thing. Consider this: If we bought an equal amount (in dollar terms) from Japan as they bought from us, trade would be said to be in balance. But if we then bought another 40 Honda cars at $25,000 a piece, we would...

Another Reason for the Bush Boom, August 27, 2004
President Bush's administration has imposed lower regulatory cost burdens on the economy than any president since the government began keeping records back in 1987, according to the New York Times. This is a story best told with a graphic, which you can click to see a larger, more legible version: I often blame the Bush tax cuts for the economy's strong growth over the last year or so. Of course, not burdening the economy with...

Good News on the Nashville Economy, August 27, 2004
The Nashville area's unemployment rate has dropped to 3.4 percent from 4.5 percent a year ago, as unemployment falls in all eight counties of the metropolitan area. Manufacturing accounts for a fourth of the job growth. I blame the Bush tax cuts....

Hiring Signs, August 25, 2004
Jeff Cornwall points to evidence of the entrepreneurial economic boom. Here's an excerpt - there's more details and links on his blog.The Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) is a group of "business professionals, all of whom are under 40 years of age and are the owners, founders, co-founders, or controlling shareholders of a company with annual sales of $1 million or more." In many cities, this group represents the leading edge of high growth entrepreneurs. This...

Building Blocks of the Boom, August 23, 2004
Jeff Cornwall notes the good news in this report from vFinance Investments, Inc. (press release). vFinance says it's Entrepreneurial Confidence Index increased 13 percent in the second quarter of 2004 as compared to the first quarter of 2004 and is up "an impressive 33 percent from the same quarter a year ago." Entrepreneurial confidence - the willingness to take a risk and start a business - is the essential building block of an economic boom....

A Costly Decision, August 23, 2004
Steven Forrest has had a handful of posts in the past few days and weeks on a recent FCC decision that the New York Times says in this story in Monday's edition will likely drive up the cost of sending voice calls over the Internet, and may hamper the growth of the VoIP (voice-over Internet telephony) industry. Lots of good stuff, so click here and pick and choose which you want to read....

Defense Spending Benefits More Than Just Halliburton, August 23, 2004
Jeff Cornwall points to some data showing that government spending on defense is good for small business. We already knew it was good for knocking off mass-murdering dictators and keeping us safe, so this is just bonus good news....

Does Corporate Welfare Cause Outsourcing?, August 19, 2004
Interesting story on outsourcing and taxpayer funded "economic development" here....

Bush Tax Cuts Mean Rich Pay Larger Share of Income Taxes, August 13, 2004
Jeff Cornwall points to Congressional Budget Office data showing that, because President Bush's tax cuts in 2001, 2002 and 2003, the rich are paying a larger portion of all federal income taxes than before. That's right. The Bush tax cuts shifted more of the burden of paying for government off the backs of the poor and middle class and on to the backs of the well-off. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee reports thatA new Congressional...

Republicanomics Helps Big Small Business, August 09, 2004
President Bush has long cast his economic policies as being good for small business, good for the entrepreneur. Now, even the New York Times has admitted there is data to support the claim, in Floyd Norris' very good article exploring the difference between the government's two surveys on employment and job growth and explains why the payroll survey has not produced data showing the same high level of job growth as the household survey. The...

Finally, Someone Noticed, August 07, 2004
A mainstream news outlet has - finally - written about the Bush administration's new initiative with the National Urban League aimed at helping minority entrepreneurs. Bush announced the initiative on July 23. I wrote about it August 3rd. The story is running on the websites of the 40 or so papers in the American City Business Journals chain of weekly city business papers. It's a start....

Bush Economy: Highest Total Employment in American History, August 06, 2004
The July jobs report is out and it's being spun as bad news for the President by people who don't understand how the data is collected and calculated. The media is reporting that only 32,000 jobs were created in July. But that's not true, for a number of reasons. First, the 32,000 figure has a statistical quirk in it: July is one of two months, the other being January, that the government statisticians simply assume...

Kerry's Plans to Regulate Tech, August 04, 2004
Steven Forrest has links to a couple of interesting articles about Sen. John Kerry, and the regulation and government oversight of the technology sector of our economy. Kerry's stance on such things is important, as the technology sector is directly responsible for about 8 percent of the nation's total economic output, and indirectly responsible for much of the great gains in productivity in almost every sector of the economy. Kerry has a typically Democratic inclination...

Arghhh..., August 04, 2004
Tennessee is going to try to regulate and demand big licensing fees from certain people who sell on eBay. That's a bad way to encourage the growth of entrepreneurial business in the digital age....

Bad Advice, August 02, 2004
A few days ago I linked to a piece by Jeff Cornwall giving entrepreneurs good advice about how to manage their business given the threat of terror attacks and the uncertain times we live in. Cornwall's piece offered some solid advice, practical help from a business professor who knows whereof he speaks - Cornwall started and built a large healthcare company in the years between his previous job in academia and his current job as...

What If?, July 29, 2004
If you're in business, I wholeheartedly recommend to you this piece by Dr. Jeff Cornwall, professor of management and entrepreneurship and also a blogger, regarding how the business community, especially entrepreneurs, should prepare NOW for the eventuality of a future terror attack, in order to lessen the negative economic and business impact of that attack....

Another Bush Boom Indicator, July 28, 2004
Jeff Cornwall comments on recent venture capital investment data: "Deal flow is now starting to go to earlier stage ventures, a sign of increasing VC optimism for the economic outlook of the next three to five years."...

Bush Boom: Entrepeneurship On The Rise, July 27, 2004
Professor Jeff Cornwall comments on new data about the entrepreneurs at the core of the American economic recovery......

The Starbucks Economic Indicator, July 26, 2004
Dave Sheridan says rising same-store sales at Starbucks indicate a strengthening economy. This and much more econo-bloggage can be found at this week's edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists....

Today's Younger Generation More Entrepreneurial?, July 19, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has some interesting comments about James Glassman's much-discussed recent column, Good News! The Kids are Alright. Glassman's column cites various survey evidence that violence, drug use and teen sex have declined. Kids are becoming more conservative politically and socially. They want to get married and have large families. And, get this, they adore their parents.Glassman referenced Kay S. Hymowitz, a writer for the City Journal, who gave four explanations for an apparant sea...

The myth that won't die ... might., July 16, 2004
Dr. Bill Fox, the University of Tennessee economist and business professor who has authored a series of studies for the National Governors Association and National Conference of State Legislatures claiming that e-commerce was going to cost state governments fantastic amounts of "lost" sales tax revenue, has begun to climb down from the claim, reducing his forecast of future lost revenue by 57 percent.State and local governments in the United States may not lose as much...

Bush Versus Kerry on Economy, Taxes and The Deficit, July 14, 2004
Knowledge@Wharton, from the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, has just released a survey of some UPenn business professors about the differences in John Kerry's and President Bush's policies and proposals on taxes, healthcare, Social Security and the overall economy. The comments of finance professor Jeremy Siegel are quite interesting......

U.S. Online Giants Going Global, July 14, 2004
And now, something for those of you interested in business news analysis without a partisan political slant: Knowledge@Wharton, from the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, examines why U.S.-based online giants eBay, Yahoo and Google are each making big foreign acquisitions.What's driving these international expansion plans? Even more importantly, what are the chances that they will succeed? Do the business models of U.S. Internet firms lend themselves to being exported and transplanted overseas? Experts...

The Productivity Boom (That The Media Ignores), July 08, 2004
Arnold Kling comments on the astonishing rise of productivity in the American economy during the first 13 quarters of the Bush administration, and why it gets little mention by the press......

Bush Boom Economy Headed for Best Year Since Reagan, July 08, 2004
I missed this yesterday, but the economy is rockin' along, headed for perhaps the best GDP growth since the Reagan years.''We are moving into a sweet spot for the economy with interest rates not too high, jobs coming back and busi- ness investment providing strength,'' said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One in Chicago, who is predicting GDP growth of 4.8% this year.The economy never grew faster than 4.5 percent annually under President Clinton,...

Jobs Data: Corporations Add Jobs, But Small-Biz Adds More, July 02, 2004
The latest job numbers are out and they are good - 112,000 new payroll jobs were created in June - even though the press is telling you they are bad because analysts had expected double that. So why is lower-than-expected job creation not bad news? Because it's only part of the story - and the media is ignoring lots of good news on the jobs-growth front. The Payroll Survey tells only part of the employment...

LLC Project Update #12, July 01, 2004
It's been nearly three months since my last update to my ongoing project involving the creation of new limited-liability companies, or LLCs, but I've recently received new data so ... here ya go. Add Georgia to the growing list of states where the formation of limited liability companies is setting records - indicating strength in the small business/entrepreneurial sector of the states economy that may be overlooked by the federal government's monthly jobs-growth survey of...

Higher Taxes Equals Less Entrepreneurial Economic Growth, July 01, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has a really excellent summary of a ground breaking study on the power of tax policy to effect entrepreneurial behavior. The study, by William M. Gentry, assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Williams College and R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean and professor of finance and economics in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, found that progressive marginal tax rates (rates that increase at higher levels of income) "discourage...

Another 250,000 More-Likely To Vote For Bush, June 30, 2004
Reuters reports:U.S. employment likely surged again in June, taking gains this year to some 1.4 million jobs and bolstering President George W. Bush's economic record ahead of the November election, analysts said on Wednesday. Economists believe 250,000 jobs were created this month, virtually matching May's jump of 248,000...That would make it almost 1.2 million jobs created in the just the last four months (1,197,000, to be more exact). I blame the Bush economic policies. Incidentally,...

Good Questions, June 30, 2004
Sen. Lamar Alexander made some very insightful remarks on the Senate floor almost two months ago about the two surveys on which the government bases its jobs-growth and unemployment stats each month – and the role of millions of "undocumented" workers (illegal immigrants) play in those surveys' accuracy. I've reprinted them verbatim here, and you can also read them in the Congressional Record starting here under the heading "Calculation of the Employment Rate. It's worth...

Economic Foot Soldiers, June 29, 2004
In response to a column by Russell Sheldon, senior economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto,which I wrote about yesterday, Jeff Cornwall says America's entrepreneurs are the economic foot soldiers of the War on Terror.The current expansion has seen an unusually slow employment recovery. Why? In large part it is because we are still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Entrepreneurs remember that after the 9/11 attack, those businesses that were already running lean...

College Enrollment Rate Suggests Kerry Wrong, June 29, 2004
I was thinking about yesterday's story in USA Today about how college has become more affordable for the middle class in the last few years - despite John Kerry's now provably false claim otherwise - and my memory kept telling me I ought to check college enrollment stats. If John Kerry is right, then college enrollment would be down. But if USA Today is right, then college enrollment would be up or at least steady....

Shock Wave: An Economic Sonic Boom, June 28, 2004
Is the U.S. economy suddenly facing a "supply shock"? Russell Sheldon, senior economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns in Toronto, thinks so:In a neat 360-degree turn, the basic theme in the U.S. economy has swung from excess capacity to shortages. The shortage situation is extreme by any standards. Inventories at all stages of production plunged relative to sales in the initial months of this year. All three levels - manufacturing, wholesalers and retailers - are very...

Bush Boom: More Good Economic News, June 28, 2004
More very good economic news. I blame the Bush tax cuts. Does John Kerry still think we're in the middle of the Great Depression?...

Boston Paper: Kerry, Democrats Wrong on Outsourcing, June 28, 2004
"Outsourcing" is the Left's latest economic bugaboo, the trend they hail as proof of the failure of President Bush's economic policies, or even of the evils of globalization. And so it warrants a closer look. The Boston Business Journal, in John Kerry's hometown, took a closer look - and says Kerry is wrong about "outsourcing." (free reg. req.)The United States is on the winning side of outsourcing, gaining far more jobs from the process than...

Ignorance on Parade, June 28, 2004
James Lileks today:"Well, it's a philosophical difference," she sniffed. She had pegged me as a form of life last seen clicking the leash off a dog at Abu Ghraib. "I think the money should have gone straight to those people instead of trickling down." Those last two words were said with an edge. "But then I wouldn't have hired them," I said. "I wouldn't have new steps. And they wouldn't have done anything to get...

Meet the Family, June 25, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has some very interesting information about the economic impact of family-owned businesses in America, businesses which accounted for 89 percent of total annual U.S. tax return filings last year, generated 64 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, and employ 62 percent of the nation's workforce. There's much more over at Cornwall's excellent blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind....

Amazing, June 25, 2004
Online retailer Overstock.com, based in Salt Lake City, is now the largest source of private employment ... in Afghanistan. Wired.com has the amazing story of globalization's positive impact on the impoverished nation. Who knew that you could point-click-purchase and help America help Afghanistan win the War on Terror? And it's not just Afghanistan - Wired finds a trend....

Charitable Giving: Clinton Years V. Bush Years, June 23, 2004
Americans gave an average of $182.09 billion to charity per year during the eight years President Bill Clinton was in office, but have increased that to $239.35 billion per year in the three years President George W. Bush has been in office - an increase of 31.4 percent. Charitable giving averaged 1.925 percent of GDP during the Clinton era, and has averaged 2.233 percent of GDP during the first three years of Bush's administration. Compassionate...

Tax Cuts Power Rise in Charity, June 23, 2004
ABC News has more on yesterday's report of an increase in charitable giving by Americans last year:Charities had been worried that recent tax reforms, included phasing out the estate tax, might hurt donations, but gifts by bequest showed the greatest increase in 2003. With support from higher household net worth, estate giving rose 12.8 percent to $21.6 billion, from $19.5 billion in 2002. Of the ten charitable categories documented by Giving USA, religious organizations received...

Forecasting the Boom, June 22, 2004
The aging of the Baby Boom generation will drive the direction of innovation and entrepreneurialism in the technology sectory, says Red Herring in a fascinating story. (Free reg req.)Finally, in their desire to stay healthy, elders will view almost all of their consumption choices through the lens of health. Health considerations won't be confined to diet or medical regimens: they'll influence choices in everything from clothing to housing. But because emerging technologies like sensors and...

Tax Cuts Allow Americans To Be More Charitable, June 22, 2004
Americans' charitable giving rose in 2003 over 2002, and marks only the fifth time since 1971 that charitable giving in America topped 2 percent of gross domestic product, reports today's New York Times:Americans gave an estimated $240.72 billion in 2003, a slight increase from the previous year, according to Giving U.S.A., an annual survey of charitable contributions published by the A.A.F.R.C. Trust for Philanthropy, a unit of the American Association of Fundraising Counsel, and compiled...

Not Exactly Grisham, June 21, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has a summer reading list for the entrepreneurial ones amongst us. Meanwhile, the latest installment of Carnival of the Capitalists, a weekly round-up of economics and business bloggage, is up here....

Free Advice, June 18, 2004
Jeff Cornwall has six pieces of good advice for small businesses as the economic boom gains momentum. Cornwall, a professor of business and consultan on entrepreneurship, says that, during the last economic boom, "the single biggest impediment keeping the entrepreneurs I was working with from growing was staffing problems. They could not hire the right people when they needed them to take advantage of a growing market." If you're running a small business, I urge...

Jobs Growth in Tennessee, June 18, 2004
The Tennessee unemployment rate dropped to 4.8% last month. That's the lowest level in almost three years, according to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The Tennessean says the increase of 47,900 jobs statewide "mirrors a national rebound in job growth." Meanwhile, John Kerry keeps talking about how bad the economy is. Kerry never had much of a chance to win Tennessee, a state even hometown boy Al Gore could win versus George...

Business Bloggage, June 16, 2004
Jeff Cornwall comments on a recent report from Deloitte Touche Tomatsu on a disturbing lack of innovation within corporate America, noting that the report "underscores that entrepreneurs are now in charge of our economic future." Cornwall says a lack of innovation and entrenched barriers to entrepeneurial activity within the coporate setting is really not a big problem for the U.S. economy.The good news it that at the macro level this is not really a problem....

Economy Up, Media Interest Down, June 15, 2004
The more the economy has improved, the less the news media has done stories on the economy. The downward trend in economic coverage began in April, according to this report [PDF file]. Ironically and coincidentally and no doubt completely unrelated to the decline in news media interest in the economy, April just happens to be about when the economic recovery accelerated, and job growth grew from a trickle to a flood and all the economic...

Another Sign of the Boom, June 11, 2004
The "offshoring" of tech jobs isn't affecting all tech jobs. Network World reports: "Despite a steady rise in the number of IT jobs being outsourced, demand for workers with Internet-related skills such as Java and networking is helping to drive IT compensation higher, according to a report released today by Meta Group Inc." And just what is driving demand for workers with Internet-related skills such as Java and networking? The Bush economic boom. Here's another...

I Hate To Burst Your Bubble, But..., June 10, 2004
Bill Quick examines the notion that there's a "bubble" in the housing market that's about to burst, and finds it silly. Of course, I've been disparaging the "housing bubble" notion for months, and I'm not even in the real estate biz....

Perspective, June 10, 2004
There's a price war between two gas stations in, ironically, the richest neighborhood . Of course, a year ago $1.76 a gallon would not have sounded like a bargain....

Bush Boom: Local Report, June 10, 2004
Home sales surge , as the Bush economic boom rolls on. Hey, didn't some guy named Reagan tell us if we cut taxes the economy would grow?...

What If It Ain't Got Soul?, June 09, 2004
Jeff Cornwall worries about the future of capitalism in an era of "collective greed" and "markets without soul." Read the whole thing....

Economic Boom Reflected Online, June 09, 2004
Record sales of Internet domains - individuals and businesses snapped up 4.7 million online names in the first three months of 2004 - is a sign of the growing economy. Steven Forrest has the details....

The Boom, June 07, 2004
Here's more evidence that the Nashville-area economy is booming....

Do the Math: Bush Economy is Booming, June 04, 2004
Man, the Bush economy sucks. At the current rate of job creation, 238,000 per month so far this year, the Bush economy would create only 11.424 million jobs over four years. That's fewer than the 10 million Kerry's policies would create in his first term. Er, um. Never mind. The fact is, the Bush Boom is now creating jobs at a faster clip than the job g