Both at Home and Abroad, Obama's Presidency is Floundering - Donald Lambro - Page 1

Both at Home and Abroad, Obama's Presidency is Floundering - Donald Lambro - Page 1: Barack Obama is getting a number of critical report cards on his foreign and domestic policies lately.

Here at home, Janet Yellen, in her first monetary policy address as the head of the Federal Reserve Board, said the labor markets were still weak, and that it will likely take two years or more before the U.S. fully recovers from its recession. Ouch.

If Yellen's forecast proves right, this means it will have taken Obama's administration nearly eight years to lift our economy out of its long and painful lethargy.

She expressed grave concern that the economy's 6.7 percent unemployment rate was still significantly above the jobless level the Fed considers normal.

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