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 is rising, give an idea. ...
Economics
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 world’s worst butchers and dictators can pose as...
California’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. ...
The 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 are higher. ...
Public 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. ...
CBO 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." ...
Seattle’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 policy than anticipated. ...
Social 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 reserve depletion, requiring prompt corrective action by lawmakers...
Texas 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 fiat currency in banking and commerce, according to...
Globalist 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 is working to erect a radical new planetary...
Has 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 questions. ...
More 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. ...
U.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 has worsened dramatically. ...
Is 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 the free market, not by government. ...
Kansas 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 revival in Kansas. ...