About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
ObamaCare Advisers Predict Death of Health Insurance Companies
Two advisers to the Obama administration during the creation of the law known as ObamaCare exposed in the New York Times on Wednesday...
Housing: Prices and Ownership Still Correcting
Just when CoreLogic, the California-based mortgage data provider, began to wax optimistic about the housing market, the Census Bureau and the S&P/Case-Shiller index doused their enthusiasm...
CBO Report: U.S. Deficits “Unsupportable”
In the summary of its “Budget and Economic Outlook” published on Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted the supportability of deficit spending...
European Fiscal Pact: Int’l. Financial Dictatorship
Monday’s meeting of the European Union in Brussels resulted in agreement of 25 of the 27 member states to inflict upon themselves and...
Tennessee Lawmaker Writes a Law, Then Breaks It
When Curry Todd was arrested last October for driving under the influence, he unknowingly set off a string of consequences, some predictable, that...
Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St. Valentine’s Day
Elliot Fineman (left), CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) announced last Monday that its members will boycott Starbucks starting on...
Greeks About to Learn the True Cost of Obtaining Bailouts
Greece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds...
Obama Ignores Challenge to His Presidential Eligibility in Georgia
After two hours of hearing from plaintiffs challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for the office of President in 2012, Judge Michael Malihi...
Drones: Another Tool of the Surveillance State
Evidence that New York City is considering using drones to keep an eye on its citizens is growing, according to Don Dahler of...
Judge Rules Americans Can Be Forced to Decrypt Their Laptop Computers
Judge Robert Blackburn (left) of the U.S. District Court of Colorado ruled on Monday that a defendant must decrypt her laptop computer so...
MIT’s Online Threat to the Higher Education Cartel
Just before Christmas the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a small improvement to its 2,100 free online courses: The free online service...
World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Global Elites Celebrating Hypocrisy
Global elites — many of the 2,500 of them billionaires — are spending a few days in Davos, Switzerland, attending the World Economic...
Keynesian Economists Agree: China to Have “Hard Landing”
Mainstream economist Robert Samuelson admitted last week that the case for the ending of the economic boom in China has some substance. Keynesian...
The Beauty of Private Property — from China?
A farmer in the communist collective of Xiaogang, a small village in eastern China, was starving, along with his family and his neighbors....
Unemployment Numbers, Regime Uncertainty, and Regulatory Surge
Last Friday’s unemployment numbers, on the surface at least, appeared to reflect a growing, albeit slowly, economy. The number of new unemployment claims...