World Bank Report Shows Big Government Reduces Economic Growth
A new report published by the World Bank has come to a spellbinding conclusion: High government spending and large public sectors substantially diminish...
Economics
Fed Chief Warns Congress of “Unsustainable” Debt, Fiscal Crisis
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers this week that the government’s borrowing was at “clearly unsustainable” levels, warning that its wild budget...
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UN Bureaucrats Floating Plan for Global Tax
Bureaucrats at the United Nations are floating the idea of a global tax on all financial transactions in order to fund the organization's...
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George Soros Talks of Economic Collapse in the West
Billionaire investor George Soros, infamous for his lavish funding of big-government and globalist causes, dropped several bombshells during a recent interview with Newsweek...
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Study: U.S. Economic Freedom Drops for Fourth Year
The latest international Index of Economic Freedom revealed that the economy of the United States lost even more liberty for a fourth consecutive...
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Washington Becomes First State With Minimum Wage Above $9 an Hour
In kicking off the New Year, Washington has become the first state with a minimum wage of more than $9 an hour, as...
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Another California Billion Dollar Boondoggle
Voters beware the salesmen who come with hat in hand, pitching shiny or miraculous services and benefits for a bargain bottom price and...
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U.S.-Funded OECD “Cartel” Seeking Higher Global Taxes
American taxpayers are sending over $100 million per year to a bloated international bureaucracy that has morphed into a “cartel enforcer” for welfare-state...
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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...
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FDIC Closes Four More Banks, Making 84 This Year
On Friday the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed and sold off four more banks, bringing the total shuttered this year to 84....
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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 every federal regulation enacted in the past two decades,...
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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 prepared its own plan for expanding U.S. employment. In...
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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 that would boost levies on large corporations located outside...
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White House Plans to Reform Business Regulations — Again
President Obama’s pledge to recover the economy has taken a long and winding detour, but his 2008 campaign pledge to regulate corporate America...
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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 of them have no academic background in business or...
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