Social Security to Announce Tiny Increase in Benefits for Next Year
The Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) announcement to be made next week has stirred offerings of how to "fix" Social Security. ...
Economics
Baker Institute Promotes Lame-Duck Passage of Sovereignty-killing TPP
On September 19, 2016, at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, James A. Baker III, former chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan and later secretary of state...
Blasting “False Economy,” Trump Takes on the Federal Reserve
Taking aim at the Federal Reserve's politically motivated manipulation of the U.S. economy, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted the central bank's artificially low interest rates. He also denounced the “very...
Negative Interest Rates: Reaganomics in Full Reverse
Although supply-side economics produced two of the longest expansions in U.S. history, the current reliance on Keynesian economic principles — including the potential for negative interest rates — is being allowed...
Big Taxi Wins Big in Massachusetts
Massachusetts socialists have not only figured out a way to punish ride-sharing newcomers, but to pass a new tax onto ride-sharing customers outside the state. ...
Big Gov’t, Big Payroll: Federal Civilian Workforce Balloons Out of Control
The federal civilian workforce has ballooned since 2014 and is now at the highest level of Obama's presidency. Is there a correlation between budgetary problems, employment increases, and slow GDP growth?...
More Proof: Raising the Minimum Wage Increases Unemployment
Here is another great example of the death of common sense: raising the minimum wage to "help the poor." ...
Under Barack Obama, National Debt Increases $100 Million Every Hour of Every Day
Under the Obama administration, the national debt grows by $1 trillion every year, and when this catches up to us, the country will suffer greatly. ...
Rand Paul Just Short of Forcing Vote on Audit the Fed Bill
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reports that he is “about seven votes short” of the 60 votes he believes would be procedurally sufficient to get a vote in the Senate. ...
Fed Official Confirms “Next Step” in Plan to Consolidate Economic Control
During a speaking tour of Australia, Cleveland Federal Reserve officer Loretta Mester confirmed the Fed's plan to issue "helicopter money." ...
Global Financial Giants Look to Use TTIP to “Harmonize” US-EU Laws, Remove Obstacles to Future Taxpayer Bailouts
A coalition of 14 U.S.-E.U. banking and financial companies are working to use the TTIP to remove regulations designed to prevent taxpayer bailouts. ...
Regulatory Overreach Is Killing Small Businesses
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy and appear to enjoy bipartisan support in Congress. Yet the amount of rules and regulations they are saddled with has grown dramatically over...
Obama Does a 180 on Social Security; Now Wants to Expand Its Benefits
Another dream from Obama — this one to be more "generous" with Social Security — will only hasten the demise of that scheme. ...
Robots: $15 Minimum Wage and the Law of Unintended Consequences
With the battle over a proposed $15 federal minimum wage raging, job losses are sure to be forthcoming — from not just traditional downsizing, but as has been seen in China...
New Book Asks the Question: “Who Needs the Fed?”
A new book by John Tammy examines the effect on the U.S. economy that would come from closing the Federal Reserve. ...