Newsweek’s Last Print Issue Is December 31
The decision to stop printing Newsweek magazine after Monday, December 31, reflects a change not only in how its subscribers access the news...
Economy
More of America’s National Debt Being Bought by Foreign Governments
Foreign governments continue to increase their purchases of U.S. government debt despite concerns over the fiscal cliff and the government's continued profligate spending....
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Latest Manufacturing Report Confirms ECRI’s Recession Call
Calling it “unexpected,” Reuters reported that the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) from the Institute for Supply Management for November fell to its lowest...
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Establishment Screams: Avoid Fiscal Cliff and Borrow, Borrow, Borrow!
All of official Washington and their media lapdogs are shaking in fear of the so-called “fiscal cliff” that is looming January 1, counseling...
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Union Threatens to Paralyze Walmart Stores on Black Friday
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union has threatened 1,000 protests against Walmart on Black Friday, while the giant retailer has filed...
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Regulators R Us: Feds Crank Up Regulations — on Everything
Get set for the Obama administration’s post-election tsunami of business-killing, job-killing, economy-killing federal regulations. It’s already begun. Take a look at www.regulations.gov, the...
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One Bear’s Prediction: Massive Market Selloff Coming
Hard-money investment manager Marc Faber predicts that markets could decline by 20 percent, perhaps more, as the economy faces the continued recession and...
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American Manufacturing Loses Another Member
The graveyard of American businesses is receiving another occupant. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania-based apparel manufacturer FesslerUSA, over 100 years old, is closing its doors. The...
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Layoffs Begin After Obama Reelected
Within hours of the reelection of President Barack Obama, American manufacturers and other employers announced massive layoffs. The reason: the high cost of...
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Dodd and Frank: The Dukes of Moral Hazard
According to the text of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the law is supposed “to promote the financial...
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Goal of TPP: Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP)
The goal of the secretive negotiations working out the TPP is the creation of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP)...
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Tax Moves Being Dictated by the Fiscal Cliff
Small business owners, some of whom have spent their lifetimes building their businesses, are unloading them before the end of the year in...
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Looking Behind the Latest Jobs Report Numbers
Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated that “total non-farm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate...
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Boston Fed Chairman Calls for More Inflation, Even If It Doesn’t Help Economy
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President and CEO Eric S. Rosengren told a Babson College audience November 1 he favored the Federal Reserve...
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Agencies Set to Unleash Tsunami of Regulations after the Election
After learning that the White House had failed to enforce the law in order to protect President Obama’s reelection chances from potential negative...
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