What Really Caused Our Current Economic Problems

Elgin Hushbeck -

For quite some time a major argument of the Democrats has been to blame Bush for our current situation.  Now this is being expanded to claim that to elect Romney and Ryan would be a return to same policies that got us into this problem in the first place.  While a common line from the […]

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What is really wrong with the economy?

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Amidst all the claims, counter-claims and finger pointing, the economy continues to struggle. Sure the unemployment rate finally dropped below 9%, but there was not a lot of celebration as only a little more than 100,000 new jobs were created, while nearly 3 times that number were so discouraged that they gave up looking, or […]

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What caused the financial meltdown in 2008?

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Here is the link to this morning’s interview on WSAU. It was a good and lively discussion. [audio:https://www.hushbeck.com/blog/audio/Elgin_Hushbeck_on_what_really_causded_financial_meltdown_of_2008.mp3]

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What caused the financial meltdown in 2008?

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There is still a lot of confusion about how we got into the current financial mess. Yet if we do not understand the problem, how can we ever hope to fix it? This Wednesday following the 8:00 AM news I will be on WSAU radio to discuss what really happened  in 2008 and how most […]

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Downgraded

Elgin Hushbeck -

The country is heading into uncharted waters.  Even some of President Obama’s supporters are beginning to realize what a disaster his presidency is. Of course, the closest parallel is the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, until now the worst president in modern times.  But Carter inherited a growing economy that was coming out of a mild […]

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