Economic Commentary - The New American

FTC Probes Google in Fishing Expedition

Google announced on its blog on June 24th that the Federal Trade Commission had launched “a review of our business. We respect the...

Bob Adelmann July 7, 2011

Rand Paul Works to Protect State Gold Money From Taxation

Bruce Walker July 6, 2011

Constitutionally minded members of Congress Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Representative Mike Lee of Utah have...

IMF Wants US Debt Ceiling Raised Immediately

Bob Adelmann June 29, 2011

The June 20th report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the United States strongly recommended that the debt ceiling be raised because...

The Fed’s Projections Are Too Rosy, Again

Bob Adelmann June 27, 2011

The economic projections released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday estimated that in less than two years the unemployment rate would be down...

U.S. Leaders Seek Immigrant “Savants” to Jumpstart American Economy

Beverly K. Eakman June 27, 2011

Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder (left), a former computer executive/entrepreneur, now in his first elective office, has seized upon an idea he believes...

McKinsey Report: Unemployment to Stay High for Ten Years

Bob Adelmann June 24, 2011

Even under the “high-job-growth” scenario offered by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), it will take ten years for the U.S. economy to generate...

Scientific Evidence Proves Capitalist Ideas May be Innate

Raven Clabough June 23, 2011

Americans have indicated avid opposition to property rights violations throughout the course of U.S. history, whether those violations take the form of taxation,...

High Unemployment and Black America

Bruce Walker June 22, 2011

The economy remains the biggest political issue today. In many respects, it is always the most important issue for African Americans. Polling data...

Default Lies Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves

Charles Scaliger June 9, 2011

With the European economy in shambles from a seemingly intractable sovereign debt crisis and the United States technically out of money to fund...

Bernanke: No Economic Recovery Yet; Diesel Index Confirms It

Bob Adelmann June 9, 2011

In what could be one of the understatements of 2011, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta on...

Real Conservatives Oppose NAFTA

Daniel Sayani June 9, 2011

One of the most important, but widely unknown bills currently proposed in Congress is legislation that would end American participation in the North...

In the Founders’ Corner A Balanced Budget Amendment?

June 8, 2011

Do we need a “Balanced Budget” Amendment? NO! A constitutionally sound, informed electorate could quickly bring about the conditions that would allow the...