CEI Targets Regulations in Annual Report
The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report today entitled Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, compiled by Wayne...
Economic Commentary
Lies, Damned Lies, and (Unemployment) Statistics
There are different ways of calculating unemployment. The data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics culls out those who are not seeking...
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Soros: U.S. Dollar No Longer World Reserve Currency
It was President Richard M. Nixon, a favorite of the neoconservative establishment, who announced in his first term that "We're all Keynesians now,"...
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Is It Really the Economy, Stupid?
You might be an "economite" if you … prefer city lights to starry skies in wide open spaces; agree that a college education...
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George Soros’ Doublespeak
Leftist billionaire George Soros (picture, left) has openly advocated for the destruction of American sovereignty, the “managed decline” of the United States dollar,...
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First, Shariah-Compliant Financing, Then, Shariah Law
Is there a Shariah threat to America? Some believe so and on Friday’s episode of the Glenn Beck program, guests discussed the threat...
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Investors in U.S. Debt at Tipping Point?
When Terence Jeffrey, writing for CNSNews.com, noted that true federal spending for the fiscal year 2010 wasn’t $3.7 trillion after all, but closer...
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IMF Economists: Huge U.S. Tax Hikes Needed
Economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned of U.S. government finances in disarray and out-of-control entitlement spending in a report published earlier...
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WTO Rules Against Boeing, U.S. Government
With the turmoil in the Middle East and the catastrophe in Japan, it is easy to be distracted from the power plays of...
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A Harvard Professor’s Goofs, Gaffes, and Blind Spots
Harvard Professor Gregory Mankiw (picture, left), in writing a hypothetical speech in the New York Times for the President in the year 2026,...
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Census Bureau Says Detroit Lost Quarter of Its Population Between 2000 and 2010
It used to be one of the great cities of a great nation, a thriving, prosperous metropolis humming night and day with the...
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Beck Interviews Griffin, Exposes Fed
Politically astute viewers of the Glenn Beck program know that he is sounding more like Ron Paul and less like a neoconservative every...
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Housing Decline: Only Halfway Home
When Reuters and CNBC.com announced the awful housing numbers from February, most observers were surprised. The housing market appeared to have found a...
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Federal Red Ink Forever
When the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis of the Obama Administration’s 2012 budget was announced last week, observers were shocked — shocked! —...
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Trillion-dollar Tax Holiday Sought by Multinationals
Claiming that granting a “tax holiday” for her company (and other large multinationals) would be beneficial to the United States, Oracle President Safra...
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