The Market Institute

The $787 billion stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama on February 17th 2009 has largely been exposed for the pet project slush fund that it is. However, pet projects aside, it has created jobs, so was it still a stimulus? The answer has to be yes, it was a stimulus. It was just [...]

Yesterday Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) announced his retirement. This was without a doubt the dominating story of the day ( ABC World News, Epoch Times, ABC World News, New York Times,

Just in time for the weekend, the snow has cleared in Washington, DC and Congress is back to work. Yesterday: The President’s Council of Economic Advisors released their economic forecast yesterday (here), and the picture that the it portrayed was not so bright.  However, that didn’t stop the White House from continuing to push for [...]

Here is the leaked draft of the Democrat’s jobs bill (here). As we forecast the Senate bill generally aligns with the House bill.  It includes extensions for unemployment benefits, COBRA benefit extensions, tax incentives for new hiring, infrastructure spending, housing credits,