About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
Scranton Pa. Can’t Kick the Can, Cuts Salaries to Minimum Wage
After conferring with the city’s business administrator, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mayor Chris Doherty announced on Wednesday, June 27, that all 398 city employees would...
Verizon Fights Back, Challenges FCC’s Right to Rule on Net Neutrality
Telecommunications giant Verizon filed a brief that the FCC is overreaching, again, in its quest to regulate the Internet. ...
The Pauls Introduce Their New Internet Liberty Manifesto
With Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, headed for a floor vote in the House in the next two...
ObamaCare Putting Squeeze on Health Savings Accounts
In anticipation that the Supreme Court might rule in favor of ObamaCare, Avik Roy wrote in Forbes magazine that Health Savings Plans (HSAs) would...
Sen. Mitch McConnell Promises to Repeal ObamaCare
On Tuesday evening, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), was asked about repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known...
Latest ADP Jobs Report Confirms Slowing Economy
Looking behind the numbers Thursday's ADP report reveals an economy that is flat-lined, heading into recession. When June’s numbers are compared to January’s, ADP’s...
Economy Tipping Over Into Recession, Again
When shipping and supply managers were quizzed about their current outlooks by two separate reporting agencies, their answers were the same: Orders are...
Harvard Senior Fellow: Peak Oil Is History
International energy economist Leonardo Maugeri says that technology and new discoveries will increase crude oil production in the United States by 50 percent...
Wealthy Conservatives Working to Unseat Obama, Take Back Senate
Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson announced his intention on Friday to give $10 million to political action committees controlled by Charles and...
JP Morgan Trading Loss Balloons to $9 Billion
When the New York Times reported that the losses resulting from the failed trade made by JP Morgan Chase (JPM) earlier this year...
Another Government Agency is Under Water
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is underwater by $26 billion. But a small premium increase will fix things up just fine. When the Pension...
Obama Admin. Credited with Gun Industry Boom
The remarkable coincidence of increased private ownership of guns as reflected by the explosive growth of firearms manufacturers, coupled with the increased interest...
Social Security Disability Recipients to Take 21-percent Cut
Beneficiaries of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program can expect to see their checks cut to 79 percent by 2016, according to the...
Feisty, Fearless Economist Anna Schwartz Dead at 96
Best known as the co-author, along with Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Freidman, of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Anna...
Two More Senators Support Bill Opposing UN Arms Trade Treaty
A week ago both Mississippi Republican senators, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, announced their support of S.B. 2205 — the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act...