Is the Third Time a Charm for Quantitative Easing?
Analysts are warning that the Federal Reserve is gearing up for a third round of quantitative easing, which involves printing money and flooding...
Economic Commentary
Federal Reserve Issues Secret Low-interest Loans to Banks
Many were shocked to learn that foreign banks were the largest recipients of the Federal Reserve’s discount loan program during the height of...
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Hitting the Federal Debt Ceiling
That bump you just felt was the U.S. Treasury running up against the federal debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. It happened on May...
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Tax Breaks, Subsidies, and Big Oil
Echoing the Obama administration’s characterization of the tax breaks being enjoyed by the five major oil companies (Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BP America, Shell, and...
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Insider Scoffs at Default Concerns, Blasts Geithner, Bernanke
Although Monday, May 16th is the day the financial world was supposed to end as the federal government’s spending hit the debt ceiling,...
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Runaway Inflation on the Cusp?
Buried in the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on the Consumer Price Index was some disconcerting news. On the...
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China: The New Investment Savior?
The Idaho Statesman in a June 6, 2010 story extolled the efforts of Idaho’s Commerce Secretary Don Dietrich and Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch”...
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Collective Bargaining “Rights”
Don’t let Walker take away our rights.” That claim is repeatedly heard in Wisconsin as public-union workers try to recall Republican state Senators...
Read moreGeorge Soros Funded by the House of Rothschild
In 1987, as a freshman in college, I walked into the university library and took down a tome entitled the House of Rothschild....
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Mending Our Monetary Maladies
Edwin Vieira, Jr. is an attorney who has won three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. He earned four degrees...
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States’ Pension Woes Worsening
The latest study by The Pew Center on the States shows not only that states have not funded the promises they made to...
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Gold at $1,500 an Ounce and Moving Higher
The price of one ounce of gold exceeded $1,500 yesterday, and immediately the media was filled with explanations. Jan Harvey, writing for Reuters,...
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Almost Half of Americans Paid No Federal Income Tax In 2010
As the supporters of President Barack Obama have complained about tax cuts for the rich during the ongoing budget debate, one group of...
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Not-So-Fun Tax Facts
Each year, American taxpayers lose anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of their income to the federal and state government in taxes, with...
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Govt to Sell Its GM Stock Before It Declines Further
When the federal government took over General Motors in July of 2009, it was “the only way to avoid an economic calamity,” according...
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