Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.
We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide.
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.
If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.
In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.
Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.
We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.
The Italian economy has been held back for decades.
I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.
