Larry Kudlow gave a speech on Sunday in DC on "the greatest story never told." He's starting to tell it. You'd think that, with the Democrats running the Hill, the media would like to talk about the great economy now. But I guess they're still afraid of George Bush getting any credit. (Not that presidents have that much to do with the state of the economy, contra all the people who foolishly didn't want Clinton removed from office because we had a high stock market, but the tax cuts certainly helped.)

Good economies are not always good for everyone.

If you work in manhattan for the financial trade, it's great.

If you work in New Orleans, or rather used to, well,
it's kind of tough.

Rand, PLEASE ban this idiot. BTW Analmous, I know some people doing quite well in Nola. Many parts of the city and surrounding area have recovered, you twit.

"Good economies are not always good for everyone."

Yes, as you continually demonstrate, the surplus on stupid has no end in sight.

And more to the point, good economies are only good for everyone when the Democrats are in power, apparently...

"If you work in New Orleans, or rather used to, well, it's kind of tough."

From what I hear, there is plenty of work in New Orleans at good pay. Fast food jobs can pay $11/hr. Construction work is so plentiful it is affecting construction times all over Texas as workers flock there.

The problem is the long commute to housing, not jobs.

If you commute 2 hours each way from work to home,
that sure reduces your effective hourly wage.

Then wtihold your services and let the market establish a wage that will support your commuting into downtown New Orleans to work.

It isn't the market's fault if you chose to subsidize it with your actions.

At which point it's not a particularly good economy.