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The media still has faith in the Obama Boom

by Phantom Ace ( 118 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Media, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, unemployment at May 27th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Anyone in the real world knows we are going through stagflation. The economy has limped along the 4th quarter with GDP growth of 1.8%. Wages are stagnant and only crappy paying jobs are being created. Despite that, the media still keeps pushing the Obama Boom. They claim this slowdown is temporary and that soon the economy will boom! Haven’t they been saying this for two years now?

The economy has been showing clear signs of slowing, but the soft patch may be temporary, and some economists look for a pick-up during the summer.

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Supply chain disruptions form the Japanese earthquake and tsunami have had a direct effect on manufacturing and the auto industry in particular. Additionally, the spike in oil and gasoline prices has hit consumer and business spending.

“We can put our finger on the problems, and they’re temporary, I think,” said Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com. “Oil prices were a blow. You can see that in the consumer spending numbers in Q1, and prices are coming back down.”

The latest disappointing data came Thursday, with the second look at first quarter GDP, still a sluggish 1.8 percent, while economists had expected it to rise above 2 percent. Jobless claims, above 400,000 for seven weeks, were greater than expected at 424,000.

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But she still sees a better second half. “I still think the second quarter is giving us the disappointment I feared would occur. The important thing is I still have not changed the second-half outlook. We still feel the second half will show the acceleration. I feel just as good about that as I did before.

Read the rest: Some Economists Expect Recovery Later This Year

If a Republican was President would the media be painting a rosy picture? No way. Ever since Obama has been elected the Progressive Propagandists have been saying things are improving and that good times are right around the corner. When these predictions don’t materialize they blame earthquakes, tornadoes and the weather. Has it ever occurred to them that Obama’s polices have failed?

Another Obama Boom Hype

by Phantom Ace Comments Off on Another Obama Boom Hype
Filed under Economy, Headlines, Misery Index at April 25th, 2011 - 3:42 pm

It’s become clear that higher fuel and food prices are having an effect on the economy. However to many sycophants in the media, the Obama Boomis indestructible. This article dismisses all the facts about our economy and instead gets out the pom poms!

Outside of some relatively unimportant housing data and continued downward adjustments to first-quarter real GDP growth forecasts, the market’s main focus this week was on corporate earnings, which were generally positive and well received by the markets.

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All of that said, I am not any more worried about the economy than I was a month or two ago. While there are many things to be concerned about–especially inflation–I don’t really think the first quarter was weak compared with the fourth, as the GDP forecasts suggest. I suspect, however, that next week’s GDP headlines won’t be nearly as conciliatory. I have picked out some key statistics that suggest to me the economy is not nearly as weak as the 1.5% potential growth rate would suggest.

A combination of a strong start to the fourth quarter and a weak start to the first quarter may explain part of the issue. A quarter that starts off on a down note, as it did in January, makes it hard to have a decent quarterly number even if the remaining two months of the quarter were “normal.” Certainly accelerating inflation also wrecked havoc on the numerical calculations. Higher employment, production, and manufacturing statistics (that are generally based on units not dollars) cited above seem to indicate a strong if not accelerating economy. However, the normal GDP calculation that subtracts inflation from the growth in nominal dollars might not have captured all the real growth in the economy during the first quarter. How could the economy show almost no real growth if stingy U.S. employers added 478,000 jobs in the quarter? Just as the economy was probably weaker than portrayed by the official government statistics mills in early 2009, I suspect the “real” economy is doing better than what will be captured in next week’s GDP report. A relatively strong quarterly earnings season would also seem to support my view that the economy is doing better than current first-quarter forecasts suggest.

That’s right! Don’t believe the weak numbers. The economy is booming as never before. Not even higher oil prices can stop the Obama Boom!  If a Republican was president, would you even see an article like this one? We all know the answer!

Obama tries to recapture his magic

by Phantom Ace ( 102 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Election 2008, Elections 2012 at April 11th, 2011 - 10:00 am

Barack Hussein Obama has a cult of personality. He can do no wrong in the eyes of many, even if they don’t agree with him. His popularity doesn’t go below the mid 40’s when in reality he should be in the 30’s. Yet there is a feeling he has lost some of his mojo from the 08 campaign. To bring back that energy and enthusiasm he has established his re-election campaign in Chicago.

In a Chicago high-rise overlooking the site of a historic 2008 victory celebration, Obama 2012 is under construction.

Four years after hosting what began as a start-up with about a dozen employees, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is poised to bring hundreds of workers and global attention back to his hometown.

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The president has acknowledged the challenge of reigniting the energy his campaign generated during a grueling two-year drive for the White House.

“We may not have the exact same newness that we had in 2008,” Obama, 49, told supporters on a conference call April 4, the day he launched his re-election bid. “That core spirit about what this campaign has always been about, I think, is still there.”

Read the rest: Obama Campaign Tries to Recreate ’07 Start-Up Feeling in Hometown

As we have seen from the first commercial, Obama’s 2012 campaign will be about his personality. For whatever reason many people still personally like him. The media has done a good job covering up his arrogance and 3rd World style demagoguery. He complains about not being able to walk in the parks anymore. Rather than being called out for complaining about his job, Obama is pitied upon. In short, 2012 will be about Obama the person not his policies.

The GOP should launch a 2 prong attack on Obama. One should be to point out his policy failures. The other should be an all out attack on his persona. If you can destroy Obama the person, then he can easily be beaten in a debate on policy.

Obama Boom produces 103,000 jobs in December

by Phantom Ace ( 157 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism at January 7th, 2011 - 2:00 pm

The greatest job market since 1999 continues to produce great paying jobs and raise the standard of living for all Americans. The Obama Boom which is considered the greatest economic miracle in human history, has reduced our unemployment rate from 9.8% to 9.4%! Clearly as things are looking great economically as some media outlets are claiming!

Overall, the economy rounded out 2010 with 1.1 million jobs added, the best yeah for hiring since 2007. And job growth is still trending upward, albeit very slowly, with an average of 128,000 a month jobs added in the last quarter of the year.

“The message here is, we are seeing improvement, and it’s a report that hints at more future strength,” said economist Robert Brusca of FAO Economics. “The glass may only be half full, but it is at least half full.”

This is an admission by the media and Progressive elites, they wish things were good. The reality we are living in a stagnant almost 3rd World like economy. Wages are declining and most new jobs are service jobs that don’t pay well. The only reason unemployment went down, was because people dropped out of the labor market. The media is trying to hide this fact and sell the jobs number as good.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected and more Americans dropped out of the work force in December, signs that employers are still slow to hire 19 months after the recession’s end.

Nonfarm payrolls rose by 103,000 last month as private-sector employers added 113,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. The November number was revised up to show an increase of 71,000 jobs from a previous estimate of 39,000.

“The good news in this report is that December caps off an entire year of job gains in the private sector,” said Heidi Shierholz, economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a union-backed think tank. “The bad news is that, three full years after the recession officially began, we are still near the bottom of a deep crater.”

“The big decline in the jobless rate to 9.4% from 9.8% was due to a third consecutive decrease in the labor force, again not a sign that people are seeing their job prospects increase,” said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities.

Read the rest: Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected

America is the economic sick man of the global economy. Unless we stop borrowing money, end unneeded military commitments abroad and engage in massive tax and regulatory reform, we will continue to have a stagnant economy. The Progressive media will be pushing this Obama Boom theme hard. This is to create a perception that things are good to have him re-elected. When during the Bush era we had sub standard job growth 125,000-150,000 compared with other expansions, the media said the economy was bad. This created a perception that thinks were bad, even when it was OK and stable. Now that it’s Obama, 100,000 jobs a month will be called great growth. There is no Obama Boom but in the imagination of the Progressives. The problem is too many Americans may buy into this lie.