How "Uncertainty" Didn’t Kill the Economy

Andrew Leonard, Salon Whatever happened to the dread horror of job-killing uncertainty? Just last year, the talking point was all the rage, unanimously chorused by GOP pundits, politicians and economists looking to hammer President Obama for a stalled-out economy.The argument was simple: Employers were refusing to hire because they feared the "regulatory uncertainty" flowing in the wake of the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank bank reform law. Terrified that the future implementation of these reforms would crimp their profits, employers laid low. A policy analyst at the…

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How "Uncertainty" Didn’t Kill the Economy