Radio Host Talks About Creating & Keeping Jobs in the U.S.
VIDEO - Pastor Stephen Broden interviews Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson at the March for Jobs rally that took place in Washington D.C. on July 15, 2013. Peterson talks about the Amnesty...
Economic Commentary
When Atlas Shrugged at Detroit
Detroit was once America’s most prosperous city, but now is an urban wasteland. A former Detroit business owner tells his story and explains how the city's economy was killed with bad...
Could Detroit’s Bankruptcy Filing Be the First of Many?
Detroit, Michigan’s bankruptcy filing is causing fear that other major U.S. cities face a similar fate as they too are dealing with burdensome underfunded liabilities like retiree benefits. ...
Consumer Confidence Not Matched by Reality
A closer look behind the Conference Board's rosy consumer confidence survey released on Monday reveals an economy, at the individual and family level, that hardly merits such optimism. ...
S&P Issues an Upgrade of U.S. Sovereign Debt Along With a Warning
The announcement by Standard & Poor's on Monday that it is revising its outlook upward is not only useless but counterproductive. ...
Obamanomics to Blame for Worst Recession Since the Great Depression
Obamanomics are to blame for the worst recession since the Great Depression; and the present fake recovery compares poorly with that in the 1920s when the government stayed within its constitutional...
The Public Pillorying of Apple for Legally Reducing Tax Burden
Last week’s show trial of Apple Computer on Capitol Hill ended up being more of an indictment of the Republican Party than of allegedly venal Apple executives accused of tax “avoidance.”...
The Importance of Tax Deductions
Tax deductions are not subsidies. They don’t have to be “paid for.” Yes, they deprive the government of revenue, but that is essential for a free society in which people are...
Today Is Tax Freedom Day, Except …
The Tax Foundation announced that on Thursday, April 18th, the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay all of its taxes for the year, with some major exceptions....
Texas VAT Bill Would Threaten State’s Prosperity
Boasting the laudable goal of eliminating property taxes throughout the State of Texas, a recently filed Value-Added-Tax (VAT) bill — House Bill 3472 — would replace not only property taxes, but...
Baby Boomers to Suffer From Dollar’s Decline
It should be asked in the wake of the “successful” fiscal-cliff negotiations, “Why does the U.S. debt ceiling need to be raised again; why, during fiscal-cliff negotiations, didn’t Congress simply raise...
Fifty-seven Good Things About the Sequester
There are 57 ways the sequester could sting you, says Jeanne Sahadi, a senior writer at CNNMoney. The following 57 things are her “somewhat random sampling” of the bad things that...
Those Walmart E-mails and the U.S. Economy
The Wall Street Journal's conclusion that Walmart's slow start at the beginning of the year was a harbinger for the balance of 2013 has just been proven premature by Walmart's remarkable...
Obama the Deficit Hawk?
President Obama, on whose watch the federal debt has grown by more than $5.9 trillion, and during whose administration America has become drearily accustomed to annual deficits measured in the trillions,...
Is Soaking the Rich the Right Answer?
Calls echo and re-echo for the government to tax the rich more, always based upon the supposition that such a tax is fair and moral. But is it really fair, moral,...