You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.
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In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.
I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.
Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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