Poll: Young Americans Favor Less Government Spending
As the U.S. economy suspends in a prolonged, comatose state, high joblessness and uncertainty among young Americans have incited youth discontent with the...
Economics
FDIC Closes Four More Banks, Making 84 This Year
On Friday the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed and sold off four more...
Rep. Don Young to Repeal Every Regulation Enacted Since 1991
Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska, left) plans to introduce a controversial bill that would abolish...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Offers Jobs Plan to Congress and White House
As President Obama’s new jobs proposal soon approaches, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has...
California Gov. Jerry Brown Proposes New Tax Plan for Local Businesses
California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a new tax plan to the state legislature Thursday...
White House Plans to Reform Business Regulations — Again
President Obama’s pledge to recover the economy has taken a long and winding detour,...
80 Percent of Congress Lacks Education in Business or Economics
While U.S. lawmakers wrestle with high unemployment and a mounting federal deficit, 80 percent...
Economist Says National Debt Really $211 Trillion
If a $14.3 trillion national debt sounds like a staggering sum, economist Lawrence Kotlikoff's...
Greenspan: U.S. Won’t Default Because We Can Inflate Money Supply
Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan (left) came up with a novel way...
Regulating Jobs to Death
Item: In the Wall Street Journal for May 26, Cass Sunstein (photo at left),...
UK Financial Times: U.S. Economy Bound for Japanese-style Lost Decade
Britain's leading financial newspaper, the London Financial Times, now believes that the U.S. economy...
Stagnant Economic Growth Weakens Obama’s Credibility
President Obama commenced his weekly address on Saturday by subtly blaming sluggish economic growth...
The $61 Trillion Debt
Anyone paying much attention to the news is aware that the U.S. government is...
National Debt: Hitting the Ceiling or Going Through the Roof?
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit,” said...
George Soros a Student of the Austrian School?
George Soros courageously walked into the Cato Institute on Thursday to debate some of...
Evidence for Double Dip is Growing
Establishment economists and other economic cheerleaders were disappointed to learn that, despite the government’s...
IMF: Chinese Economy To Surpass U.S. By 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now predicts that the size of China’s economy will...
Rep. Paul Plans Hearing on Fed’s Foreign Bailouts
Constitutionalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on...
Libya Costs Will Undermine GOP’s Savings
While Republicans have touted savings in the passage of continuing resolution after continuing resolution,...
Supreme Court: Fed Must Disclose Bailout Details
After the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of lower-court rulings, the Federal...