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"But relatively few economists, even those who see signs of an improving economy, sound particularly buoyant, a concern shared by liberals and conservatives alike."
1 posted on 05/31/2011 7:05:25 PM PDT by khnyny
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Worth the read. There are other articles from various sources which have basically gone under the radar saying the same thing...interesting how it is not being highlighted in the media.


2 posted on 05/31/2011 7:07:26 PM PDT by khnyny
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Thanks to Obamanomics as it pertains to business, companies have been forced to live with less...Less sales/product volume translates to needing fewer/less employees which requires less overhead (paying them) = more profit.

Of course there are side effects...


3 posted on 05/31/2011 7:10:39 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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"Profits Are Booming. Why Aren’t Jobs?"

Because of Obambi's policies. He simply can't pass a law requiring businesses to hire people.

5 posted on 05/31/2011 7:13:33 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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It’s because business has gotten lean and mean, now a lot of folks a performing multidisciplinary work just to stay employed.


6 posted on 05/31/2011 7:13:33 PM PDT by mylife
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They laid off a lot of people and found out they can make a profit without them? So why hire them back?


7 posted on 05/31/2011 7:14:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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Poor economic conditions may not seem a blessing in disguise but can you imagine the confiscatory and regulatory rampage by Obama during a time of plenty?

He’s an organ grinder with only one song to play entitled ‘Eat The Rich.’ It’s worked well for him as he’s Peter Principled his way up the political ladder but class warfare is the last thing anyone needs or wants to hear at this stage. It’s obvious the man doesn’t have a clue what to do or say next, such is the limit of his life experiences.


8 posted on 05/31/2011 7:15:33 PM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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It’s from January


9 posted on 05/31/2011 7:15:58 PM PDT by gusopol3
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Article was better than I anticipated. Here’s one answer, “More so than in the past, many American-based corporations earn a great portion of their profits overseas.”


10 posted on 05/31/2011 7:16:48 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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I would surmise that businesses (like mine) have taken a beating for over two years (since Q2 2008). We had the largest revenue year ever in 2010. Our profits were high as well for a variety of reasons. Does that make us likely to hire more? Not at all. We're still basically operating at 2007 levels despite the higher revenue (I know that doesn't quite make sense, but it does in my industry, design/engineering software). Revenue/profit numbers can be grossly misleading as to what is actually happening. Business levels do not demand more manpower.

We're staffed where we need to be and will not hire until business actually breaks loose and we see a sufficient level of confidence in the market where our customers start to let go of their money. That just isn't happening yet. Everyone wants to believe that it is, but I'll believe when I actually see sales levels that are truly where they ought to be.

11 posted on 05/31/2011 7:18:40 PM PDT by Paco
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Big corporations have no interest in helping the USA economy. They were once USA corporations with defacto USA citizenship and now have become international with no specific interest or loyalty in the USA.

The sooner we Americans understand that there is no longer a “corporate America” the clearer we can see why they sell us out.


13 posted on 05/31/2011 7:21:21 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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Check the job growth in India and China for answers, Perfessor!


14 posted on 05/31/2011 7:21:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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They’ll come up with every explanation but the real one: American workers are expensive and regulatory, tax and litigation uncertainty makes it worse.


15 posted on 05/31/2011 7:22:35 PM PDT by hc87
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In the past, obsolesence of consumer goods would lead to a spurt in consumer buying providing an uplift to the manufacturing sector and increased employment and an end to a recessionary cycle.We now live in a different world. That does not work anymore because the manufacturing sector is no longer the bulwark of our economy. That sector has disappeared overseas.


17 posted on 05/31/2011 7:23:15 PM PDT by chuckee ( gives too much credence to the UK's)
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On purpose?


19 posted on 05/31/2011 7:25:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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J. Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, (AKA Major Incompetent Tool)...“It’s quite a puzzle when you have this disjunction between profits on the one hand and unemployment.”

There is not one darn thing puzzling about this.
A: This almost always happens at the start of an inflationary cycle.
B: When you don't know how the gubment is going to screw you next you hold onto your money and DO NOT incur more costs.

20 posted on 05/31/2011 7:28:24 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Are you prepared?)
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Dear NYT,

Who is John Galt?

26 posted on 05/31/2011 7:40:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Because the “job” is dead - but US laws, enacted at the behest of unions, punish the hiring of independent contractors and consultants.


27 posted on 05/31/2011 7:40:46 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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Tomorrow is June 1. Conditions have not improved in the six months since this article was published. In fact, the data released today shows that housing has not recovered at all in the past two years. Unemployment is still around 16%, not the government’s bogus 9%, which does not count the millions who no longer receive unemployment compensation but who have not found a job.

Anyone who votes for this total failure to be re-elected as president is dangerously ignorant.


29 posted on 05/31/2011 7:41:50 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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Because there’s little licensed, authorized, degreed, approved domestic competition.


32 posted on 05/31/2011 7:46:35 PM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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Hopefully it remains dire until the kenyan is tossed out in 2012 and then with a Conservative as President business booms.

We can not survive a lame duck leftist democrat marxist to maximize the damage he is doing now.


33 posted on 05/31/2011 7:47:36 PM PDT by soycd
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