Prosperity Problem News Today

In today’s letters to the editor: defence spending; productivity; natural gas; built environment; the housing crisis; transgender policies

Gypped, but, in fact, life is pretty good. >> you know, its interesting, because it is kind of a paradox. because when you put it that way, obviously, it sounds pretty good compared to what has been the kind of grind for most of human history. and even folks back in the 30s were writing famous essays about what we would do once the prosperity problem had been solved. how would people use their time. but at the same time, with the rise of china and india, the sense that these rising countries rea...

Getting the heck out of there. the jobs they can find, they dont pay much. >> the only answer here is growth. you must grow the economy to lift all boats, we must do that. we dont have growth. weve had three years of very little growth at all but a lot of spending and a lot of debt. those policies have failed. they must be reversed if you really want to fix this prosperity problem which we clearly have a prosperity problem. >> the states dont lie. 146 million americans are considered poor. thats...

Any chance any deal that gets the debt metaphor, but is not made, i dont care whose name is the most important thing right on it is anything but a now the prosperity problem and short-term band-aid? the jobs problem? is that not the broken leg? >> the president compared this, working a rope line at an event the acute problem? well normally talk about fuel efficiency standards. someone said id like to go and >> still >> dylan, i agree. we keep talking about the cuts. play poker. there need to be ...