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Buy Local = Indiana Plates and a Land Rover
There is nothing wrong with purchasing items made locally, as I have noted before. But there is something wrong with preaching to the rest of us the “Buy Local” mantra from the rear window of your...
View ArticleTARP Was Not a Success
By Adam Bitely – Contrary to Robert Samuelson’s claim that TARP has been a success story, it has been anything but. Writing in the Washington Post, Samuelson claims that “[w]hen the entire financial...
View ArticleWould we be better off today without TARP?
By Adam Bitely – In Robert Samuelson’s recent op-ed praising TARP as a success of government intervention that stabilized the financial market, he stated, “Without TARP, we’d be worse off today. No one...
View ArticleState Officials Should Resist Implementing ObamaCare and Advance Free Market,...
By Kevin Mooney – State officials should act now to deny ObamaCare the regulatory edifice it needs to take root, instead of waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the federal law, according to...
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Obama Blames Efficiency As Cause of High Unemployment
In a strange response in an interview conducted by NBC, Obama blamed modern technology, even specifically blaming ATM’s at banks and ticketing kiosks at airports, as causes of the high rate of...
View ArticleGovernment Agencies Overlook Benefits of Higher Carbon Dioxide...
By Kevin Mooney — Government agencies and international institutions that have worked tenaciously to vilify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant have done a great public disservice, Dr. Craig...
View ArticleProperty Owners, Small Businesses Under Assault from the FDIC and Hedge Fund...
By Kevin Mooney — Property owners and small business owners are under assault from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which is operating in collusion with Wall Street hedge fund...
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GAO Report Overlooks Key Figures that Show Younger Workers with Higher...
By Kevin Mooney — Contrary to some of the key findings included within a new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, unemployment is actually much worse among younger workers than older...
View ArticleBritain’s House of Lords Resists Global Warming Policies, Uplifts Free Trade...
By Kevin Mooney — Suddenly, Great Britain’s House of Lords is back in style and that’s good news for the free market. Some of the more forceful critics of anti-energy, global warming policy proposals...
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Perhaps Harkin should have retired in 2008
By Rick Manning — Here is what Iowa Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin said on Valentine’s Day making one wonder if Cupid’s arrow sapped him of his senses. SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-IA): “Thank you, Madam Chair. I...
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Does human nature compel overborrowing?
By Bill Wilson A recent piece by Bruce Bartlett brings together numerous useful academic studies that suggest “financialization” — the expansion of the credit sector as a percent of the economy — can...
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Countdown to the implosion of Obamacare
By Marta H. Mossburg Back in 2009 President Barack Obama told Americans that his health care plan wouldn’t impact people who already have health insurance. As he said, “First of all, if you’ve got...
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A time for debt vigilance
By Rick Manning Ten years ago, the national debt was an astounding 6.8 trillion dollars, fifteen years ago, it was 5.5 trillion and twenty years ago, it was 4.4 trillion. After all the accounting...
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Just who the heck do we think we are?
By Bill Wilson Reuters on Oct. 30 blared the headline “U.S. Treasury lashes out at Germany, says export dependence hurts global economy,” highlighting a new semiannual report to Congress from the...
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New report shows way to end sugar subsidies
By Rick Manning Ending sugar subsidies makes sense if done the right way. The right way is to create a pathway for ending the subsidies that allows the U.S. sugar farmers and industry to compete in a...
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Former Fed official: ‘I’m sorry, America’
By Robert Romano Since August 2007 when the financial crisis began, the Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet by more than $3 trillion, including $1.35 trillion of U.S. treasuries and $1.43...
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Tesla’s fiery arrogance
As originally published by TheHill.com on 11/18/2013 by Rick Manning Crain Communications Automotive News reports that more than 800,000 Volkswagen Tiguan’s are being recalled worldwide based upon 26...
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Fed’s $1 trillion a year subsidy to banks to continue under Yellen’s watch
By Robert Romano With the filibuster against most presidential nominees now eliminated — well, sort of, Senate Democrats did not actually amend the rules, they just voted to pretend they don’t exist —...
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Destroying entry level jobs and teen opportunity
By Rick Manning Fast food restaurants will get the joy of having labor unions stage protests demanding an increase in their worker’s wages and more than doubling the overall federal minimum wage this...
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Why fast food workers should really protest
By David Bozeman Fast food workers, prodded on by a top down effort by union organizers, yesterday protested in many locations demanding a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour and, of course, union...
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