Category: economics

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    First 2012 Presidential Debate

    Fact check.org said, “Romney came off as a serial exaggerator”.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Is the Average RICH person an Idiot?

    The Walton family’s now holds as much wealth as the bottom 40 percent of Americans combined—about $90 billion.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Manipulating Opinions by Leaving out Facts – see how it is done

    Since Clinton did do something as president to fix one sector of the American health care system, to avoid misleading readers, I should have said, “No Republican president has ever attempted to fix this mess in any way.”

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 3/3

    No matter the reason, dropping out of high school is a decision made by the individual. No president, G. W. Bush or Obama, forces anyone to drop out of high school or to avoid college. If a child grows up and cannot read, it is not the president’s fault.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 2/3

    A little known cause of illiteracy is cultural influences, children learn a lot from their environment at a young age and are known to mimic the behavior of the people around them …

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 1/3

    What about the people that quit a job or retired and are being replaced—replacing people that quit or retire does not show as an increase in jobs because that job already existed and it isn’t a new job—it is an old job.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Another Sky-is-Falling Guru

    Do pessimists get more attention in the traditional media and on the Internet than optimists?

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Earning Power of Predictions

    Card counters in Las Vegas have better odds of winning at blackjack …

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Discovering the four Koch Brothers – Viewed as Single Page

    Fred Koch wrote, “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America,” and that “Welfare was a secret plot to attract rural blacks to cities, where they would foment a vicious race war.”