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[MunKnee.com] Robert Reich: This Economic 'Recovery' is Nothing But a Mirage ...: Most economic analysts think a sustainable debt load is around 100 percent of disposable income - assuming a normal level of employment and normal access to credit. Unemployment is still sky-high and it’s becoming harder for most people to get new mortgages and credit cards and with housing prices still in the doldrums, they can’t refinance their homes or take out new loans on them.

[Americans for Tax Reform RSS] Kerry-Lieberman Energy Bill Will Kill 522000 Jobs and Reduce GDP ...: Unfortunately for Democrats who saw the House-passed Cap-and-Trade stall in the Senate last year, Kerry-Lieberman includes many of the same problematic ramifications: job loss, GDP reduction, and less disposable income.

[Untitled] The Economic Impact of an Offshore Drilling Ban «: If a total ban on offshore drilling is implemented by 2011, then by 2035 Americans could expect national income (GDP) to drop by $5.5 trillion, total costs of imported oil to rise by $737 billion, total disposable income to decrease $54,000 per family of four, and job losses to exceed 1.5 million. A total ban on offshore drilling would pull the rug out from the economy’s incipient recovery.

[24/7 Wall St.] The American Economy: Making Money By Keeping People Unemployed ...: Even if a recovery in GDP means that the US produces more goods and services for the 84% of Americans with jobs or federal and state support and for exports to other nations, many of the companies that supply these things may not hire a single full-time worker. If that is true and becomes a substantial trend, then the point at which unemployment and underemployment will begin to become better may be many quarters, if not many decades, away.

[MoSo Technology Blog] Does Obama actually have an economic policy? | MoSo Technology Blog: Actually he is going to lower the taxes for most people who don’t make a ton of money and have crazy amounts of disposable income. What this means is that a lot of people will have extra money to spend, and will, because they don’t have a lot of disposable income to start with.

[American Pendulum] Latvia's Third Option « American Pendulum: This was the policy that underlay Hong Kong’s economic rise - the example that Latvian leaders hope to emulate as a banking service entrepot and international technology center (as Latvia was in pre-1991 Soviet times). Hong Kong promoted its economic takeoff by relying mainly on collecting the land’s rental value, enabling it to minimize employment taxes (presently only 15%).

[Top Stories From AOL News] Fed Official: Gulf Oil Spill May Be Hurting Economic Recovery: The Commerce Department said Monday that while personal income rose 0.4 percent in May and Americans' disposable income was up by the same percentage, consumer spending rose by just 0.2 percent. And growth in personal savings as a percentage of disposable income accelerated to 0.4 percent, suggesting Americans feel the need to sock away more for a rainy day.

[Trading Options Lab] For the Us Economy in the New Year, the Pain Will Precede the Promise: Regardless of any formal announcement of whether or not the United States drops into an actual recession, the ongoing credit crisis guarantees a contraction of the American economy by virtually every measure we know. That period of darkness will be marked by a dramatic slowdown in economic activity, as well as by rising unemployment, additional declines in U.S. stock prices, and constant volatility.

[Business Blog] For the Us Economy in the New Year, the Pain Will Precede the Promise: the recipe for a recession Whether the United States is technically in a recession will ultimately be guessed by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The business cycle dating committee, this privately run, non-profit economic research group is now studying five factors to determine in a trial whether the United States has entered a recession, and, if so, when the recession started Market Watch.

[Reports - The Heritage Foundation] The Economic Impact of an Offshore Drilling Ban | The Heritage ...: If a total ban on offshore drilling is implemented by 2011, then by 2035 Americans could expect national income (GDP) to drop by $5.5 trillion, total costs of imported oil to rise by $737 billion, total disposable income to decrease $54,000 per family of four, and job losses to exceed 1.5 million. A total ban on offshore drilling would pull the rug out from the economy’s incipient recovery.

[Glassman Wealth Services LLC] Glassman Wealth Services LLC » Blog Archive » The Incredibly ...: Encouragingly for consumer finances, household debt service payments as a percent of disposable personal income is on the decline.   The ratio remains above the long-term average, but is returning to a more appropriate level and indicates that the consumer balance sheet is slowly being realigned.

[Switchboard, from NRDC] Energy efficiency (including smart growth) is essential to ...: World energy problems have become more complex and more difficult to solve, how to develop and utilize world energy in 21 century is not a future issues, but an urgent event that concerns humans’ destiny. The important thing people need to consider is how to cognize their energy status, study energy supply and consumption structure patterns from different perspectives, analyze the driving forces and constrains of energy development, discuss how energy impacts on economy development and the surrounding environment, and finally find feasible measurements to improve energy efficiency and reduce the energy use.

[TravelPod.com TravelStreamâ™ ”” Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Big Macro-economics - San Salvador, El Salvador Travel Blog: It´s all very well to moan pointlessly about slick marketing machines skulking around freshly swollen wallets and to bemoan the onset of Pan-American cultural one-ness, but…As we turn our back on this sort of guilty commerce, it would appear (from left leaning personal experiences) that much of the world is just getting started. The fast food parable is a microcosm for the demand for ´Western´ lifestyles that will very soon overtake our own demand for our own lifestyle.

[Sweet Home NJ Blog] June's Jobs Report Wasn't As Bad As The Headlines (And How You Can ...: A move like this is often bad for home affordability because falling demand for bonds is tied to higher mortgage rates. In addition, with the growing number of Americans earning a paycheck, demand for homes is likely to increase, thereby helping to push home prices higher.

[The Economic Populist - Economic Populist Forum, Trade Policy, Insourcing/Outsourcing, Macro Economics, Labor, Immigration] Chart-worshipers, part-swappers, and inequality | The Economic ...: The notion of class has been expunged from economics by the concept of the indifference curve and its 'one size fits all' treatment of everyone from the poorest Bedouin to the richest American. Yet because the preferences of different individuals cannot be meaningfully aggregated, this concept is invalid for the analysis of anything more than an isolated individual.

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