Economics
Seattle’s Coming $15 Minimum Wage
What can be wrong with mandating that workers get paid more money? Interviews with small business owners in Seattle, where the minimum wage...
UN Dictators Club to Convene “World Humanitarian Summit”
Yes, yet another UN summit, in this year of unending global summits, where globalists, the UN’s self-important corrupt bureaucrats, and some of the...
Read moreCalifornia’s “Equal Pay” Law Will Discourage Businesses, Encourage Lawyers
Come January, California's new “equal pay” law will serve nicely as additional incentive for more California companies to leave the state. ...
Read moreThe Real Unemployment Picture
Where the state of the American economy is concerned, there are the official unemployment figures, and there are the real figures. Guess which...
Read morePublic Pension Plans Cut Rate of Return Targets; Still Not Enough
An underfunded pension plan can be compared to the welfare state in America: Beneficiaries are going to be sorely disappointed. ...
Read moreCBO Report on National Debt Paints Grim Picture
If Congress does not address the growing national debt, Congressional Budget Office Director Keith Hall warned, it will soon reach a "tipping point."...
Read moreSeattle’s Minimum-wage Increase Starting to Cost Jobs
Progressives in Seattle suffer from a blind spot — economic reality — that is causing exactly the opposite reaction to their new minimum-wage...
Read moreSocial Security Disability Trust Fund Could Be Depleted by Late 2016
The Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees stated that “Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund now faces an urgent threat of...
Read moreTexas Launches Gold-backed Bank, Challenging Federal Reserve
The State of Texas is setting up a gold-backed bank that will allow depositors to bypass the controversial Federal Reserve System and its...
Read moreGlobalist Assault on Tax Competition Rouses Opposition
As part of what experts call a war on tax competition and low taxes, a coalition of high-tax governments from around the world...
Read moreHas the Federal Reserve Sold the Gold at Fort Knox?
Is there gold at Fort Knox? Has the Federal Reserve sold it in order to manipulate the economy? An audit might answer these...
Read moreMore Proof People Are Moving From High Tax States
Americans are exercising the freedom to move from high-tax, high-debt, Democrat-controlled states to more free ones. ...
Read moreU.S. Financial Outlook has “Worsened Dramatically”
In its just-released report “The 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” the Congressional Budget Office stated bluntly that the long-term outlook for the federal budget...
Read moreIs Push by Cities for Higher Minimum Wage a Good Idea?
Seattle, Los Angeles, and many other cities are passing minimum-wage laws; however, history has shown that wages and prices should be set by...
Read moreKansas Considers Tax Increases Just as Its Economy Revives
It's to be hoped that common sense prevails in Topeka. It's far too soon to end the experiment which would quash the economic...
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