Economy - The New American

With Democrats Out, Audit of Federal Reserve Gains Momentum

Despite frantic opposition by the privately owned Federal Reserve and Democrat leadership in Congress, newly empowered Republican lawmakers, now in the majority in...

Alex Newman January 6, 2015

Regional Currency Plots Advance in Eurasia and South America

Alex Newman December 29, 2014

As the world’s nations are increasingly cobbled together into freakish and largely arbitrary regional unions via economic and political “integration,” transnational currencies are...

Coming Egg Shortage Will Tax Family Budgets

William F. Jasper December 19, 2014

Thanks to radical vegan/animal rights activists, starting January 1, California’s new “regs on eggs” will cause skyrocketing egg prices that will affect the...

Gas Prices: How Much Lower and Longer?

Bob Adelmann December 5, 2014

Lower gas prices are providing a welcome if temporary relief to beleaguered taxpayers, and we tell why prices have gone down. ...

Gun Sales Triple on Black Friday

Bob Adelmann November 30, 2014

Black Friday ought to be renamed Freedom Friday, considering the dramatic increase in gun sales. ...

Will Obama’s Immigration Policy Cost Jobs?

Ralph R. Reiland November 25, 2014

In contrast to his current position, “President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants would harm ‘the wages of blue-collar Americans’...

Taxi Union Flexes Its Muscle, Shuts Down San Francisco International Airport

Bob Adelmann November 20, 2014

Using outdated tactics to gain clout, the taxi union's shutdown of San Francisco International Airport on Monday night merely hastens the day of...

Obama’s “Net Neutrality” Rules: Threat to Free Speech

Thomas R. Eddlem November 13, 2014

President Obama's November 10 announcement that he would seek the “strongest possible rules” through the Federal Communications Commission to enforce "net neutrality" will...

IMF Boss Lobbies U.S. Congress for More Money, Power

Alex Newman November 4, 2014

International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde wants more of your taxpayer dollars, a lot more power for the IMF on the world stage,...

Tax Foundation and Cato Agree: Lower Taxes Make for Stronger States

Bob Adelmann October 28, 2014

There are lessons to be learned from the divergent rankings of states based on their tax policies, and New York Governor Cuomo is...

Safety Records Show Pipelines Best Method for Transporting Oil

Bob Adelmann October 20, 2014

The delay in approving the final leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is unncessarily costing property damage and lives. ...

U.K. Sells Bonds in China’s Currency, Adding Pressure on Dollar

Alex Newman October 16, 2014

Amid fast-growing pressure on the U.S. dollar’s status as the global reserve currency, authorities in the United Kingdom this week successfully issued sovereign...

OPEC Continues to Unravel

Bob Adelmann October 13, 2014

While oil production booms in North Dakota's Bakken formation and elsewhere in the United States, OPEC is unraveling. ...

The Eye-popping Cost of Federal Regulations

TNA Video September 19, 2014

VIDEO - The New American senior editor, Bill Jasper describes the mind blowing size, cost and wastefulness of our federal regulatory state. According...