Economy - The New American

Harvard Professors Predict High Inflation, Defaults for U.S.

Two Harvard professors are predicting that America will soon be forced to adopt financial measures only previously used by third-world countries in order...

Bob Adelmann January 17, 2014

Scranton, Pennsylvania, Fighting Bankruptcy Foolishly

Bob Adelmann January 16, 2014

Economic ignorance and union influence will force Scranton, Pennsylvania, into Chapter 9 bankruptcy. ...

America’s “Economic Freedom” Score Drops — Again

Bob Adelmann January 15, 2014

The Heritage Foundation tracks the continuing decline in economic freedom of the United States, placing it now just behind Estonia and just ahead...

Reports of Death of Incandescent Light Bulb are Premature

Bob Adelmann January 13, 2014

The free market continues to stay at least one step ahead of the regulators, this time with incandescent light bulbs. ...

CFR Sweep at Fed: Fischer, Brainard, Powell to Join Yellen

William F. Jasper January 12, 2014

President Obama has given the CFR a clean sweep of the new appointments to the Federal Reserve, with his naming of Janet Yellen,...

The Federal Reserve: Bankers for the New World Order

Jack Kenny January 8, 2014

Though touted as preserving the dollar’s value and ending economic slumps, the Federal Reserve is destroying the dollar and weakening the economy, for...

Globalists Exploit New U.S. Tax Law for World Taxation Regime

Alex Newman January 6, 2014

Socialist luminaries and international bureaucrats at various outfits funded primarily by U.S. taxpayers are seizing on a “devastating” new American taxation scheme, known...

Obama Considering Chinese Participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 2, 2014

China is once again expressing interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and President Obama has signaled that he would entertain the idea...

Washington Post Urged to Disclose New Owner’s CIA Ties

Alex Newman December 27, 2013

The Washington Post, one of the premier mouthpieces for the establishment, is facing a tsunami of criticism and calls for full disclosure after...

U.S.-EU Trade Pact Accelerates Economic and Political Integration

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. December 18, 2013

Negotiators are pushing hard to finish drafting the TTIP, a U.S.-EU trade pact that will transfer sovereignty to international bureaucrats. ...

Private Sector Shrinking, Public Sector Growing in Most States

Michael Tennant December 10, 2013

Since 2007, private-sector employment has declined in almost all states, leaving government with an ever-larger share of the labor force, according to a...