May 22, 2012

How the Recovery Went Wrong

Harvey Golub, Wall Street Journal

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President Obama, in speech after speech, proudly makes the following point: Although we inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, we have generated net new jobs every month, and while we need to do more, we are going in the right direction. . .

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