Phones, Jobs & Folly
I wasn't surprised by the latest report from the Commerce Department that shows the U.S. trade deficit, the excess of imports over exports, had jumped in January to the biggest imbalance...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
Pie-in-the-Sky Energy Planning
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe,” said Dr. Steven Chu, director of the Lawrence National Laboratory, in an interview...
America’s Worst Anti-business Climates
Here’s a headline that’s sure not to boost investment and job creation in Pennsylvania: “Wyoming First, Pennsylvania Worst In Business Taxes.” ...
Hikes in Gas Price Eclipse Payroll Tax Cut
The Washington politicians were in full self-congratulatory form recently when the Republicans and Democrats in Congress finally displayed a moment of bipartisanship and passed the payroll tax cut extension that keeps...
An Anti-jobs, Anti-growth “Budget”
The Washington crowd can’t be bothered with budgets anymore — at least not in the dictionary sense of the word, as in (a) something cheap, i.e., a budget coat, or (a)...
Obama on Capital Gains: No Winners
“If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes,” asserted President Obama in his State of the Union speech. ...
Cage Fighting on the Campaign Trail
You wonder why anyone would want to run for President of the United States. ...
Obama’s Off-base Blame Game
President Obama started off his speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on December 6 with a positive nod to free-market economics. ...
Economic Libertad? Cuba’s Baby Steps Toward Liberty
Millions of economic transactions take place every hour in the United States, too many for any central committee in Washington to handle or even Understand, even if they all graduated with...
“Soak the Rich” Policies and the Great Depression
Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas grandparents “shared the optimism of a nation that...
Crony Communism
It's not like the old days in China when the top guys in the Communist Party at least pretended to be pro-equality. ...
The Not So Super Supercommittee
Even if Congress' supercommittee had agreed on how to cut the national debt by $1.2 trillion over the next decade, it would still have been a total failure, an inconsequential bit...
Penn State’s Sex-abuse Scandal: The banality of detachment
Why did it take 17 years? Here’s the timeline in the Jerry Sandusky case: ...
The Collectivized Train Wreck in Europe
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” said British historian Arnold Toynbee. We’re seeing exactly that today in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. In all those cases, the ineptness of government...
It’s Anti-Semitism, Again?
“I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government — they need to be run out...