There’s a damning number regarding our economy that Obama doesn’t
want to talk about. It’s a number, but for him, would be lower. And,
lower, in this case would be a good thing for the economy.
“Although estimates vary,” says Joel Kurtzman, a senior fellow at
the Milliken Institute, “American companies have between $4 and $5
trillion in liquid assets, a sum greater than the size of the German
economy.”
How is it that companies can now have more cash than anytime in
history, while unemployment remains so high, inflation in many goods so
low, and national income grows so anemically?
Oh, yeah. Democrats at work. Shhhh.
If all that was needed to bring us a juggernaut economy was more money, we’d be in boom times boys.
But alas, while more money is the Democrat recipe for success in
everything-- and generally good in the corporate sense-- in this case
it’s a telltale sign that something is wrong with policies coming out of
Washington.
Because those high cash balance sheets are telling us a few things.
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