Mainstream Economists Just Don't Get It - Or Do!

[lucrum]

Can't do anything else than agree with you on this one Steve.

It's the same mess over here and it makes no sense. We get told recession is over, people get jobs and everything is fine and dandy. On the same page, you see how an airliner must cut expenses and see the need to lay off dozens of people.

Further down, you see that big companies see the need to cut the christmas parties this year, cause they have no money for it. You see that more and more people will lose their company car, and benefits that include free dental care, free gym memberships and other typical benefits.

Conflicting stories all over the board...with the reader having to sort it all out for him/herself, to make any sense of it at all.

I'm tired of being considered dumb, just because I ain't got a degree. It's disrespectful to the public when they assume we are all dumba*ses that don't get what's going on.
It might be true for some, but definitly not everyone.

[happyhollergal]

Maybe it's just more confirmation for those of us who know that the media corrupts absolutely, and that most of the reporters reporting aren't even aware that they're lying. If you listen to Gerald Celente or Lyndon LaRouche, you get a pretty good idea of what's going on in the real world of economics. Ron Paul has helped open the eyes of lots of people in language that the average person can understand, by acknowledging the hard times people are experiencing and telling them how things came to get this ugly. I'm not sure if the voters will be sucked in next November by some new smooth talking Senate and Congressional hopefuls hollering about change, but I have a good idea that things are going to get a lot tougher in the next year, and that may be a good thing if it means holding those accountable who we place in positions of responsibility over our lives, where future generations will be affected. I keep hoping to turn on the news one day to see all of the corrupt people worldwide arrested, put out of business permanently and sent to toil in Siberia for the rest of their lives. At least I haven't lost my ability to dream big.

[Northern Boy]

maybe this is the stimulus money inaction propping up the market trying to lure investors in the dollar is sinking and the Dow goes up seems like opposite ends of the spectrum

[Ross H]

This one of my favorites I read a week ago in the paper

"the jobless recovery"