Not a day goes by that we don't hear Mitt Romney claim that businesses aren't creating more jobs because they're uncertain about the future. In fact, Romney has created far more uncertainty than anyone else. He offers a virtual question mark of an economy.

The evidence doesn't come close to supporting the conservative talking point that what's holding back hiring is Obama-driven regulatory uncertainty.

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While conservative politicians are busy jamming their perennial tax cut/deregulate agenda into the current economic context, the thing that businesses are truly uncertain about is when they're going to start seeing some customers again.

In this challenging economy, when U.S. unemployment is far too high and our national and personal bank balances are much too low, one profession that ...

Why can't America have some jobs? Lawmakers tell a story, which your Beltway media regurgitate, and it goes a little something like this: We can't have jobs until banks start lending money to support the productive side of the American economy. Why won't they start lending? Oh, you know... uncertainty! And it's caused by many things: the debt ceiling deal, the unknown future of the Bush-era tax cuts, the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank legislation. And all the onerous regulation the White House wants to add! You'd think the financial collapse occurred in some sort of loose regulatory environment, where Wall Street was permitted to police itself, or something!