Boom and Bust in Stockton, California
When Ann Johnston (left), Mayor of Stockton, California, informed the city council in March that Stockton was about to go bankrupt, making it the largest municipal bankruptcy in history,...
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NBC Announces Investigation Into Altered Zimmerman Tape
Following the exposure of NBC’s edited conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher prior to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, NBC announced its investigation into the matter. NBC...
Deadlock on Budget, Despite House Passage of Ryan Plan
The budget plan of Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan (left) passed the House on Thursday 228 to 191, mostly along party lines. In fact, not a single Democrat voted...
Fed Is Buying 61 Percent of U.S. Government Debt
In his attempt to explode the myth that there is unlimited demand for U.S. government debt, former Treasury official Lawrence Goodman explained that there is high perceived demand because...
U.S. Defense Department Announces Step Toward the North American Union
Another step toward the North American Union (NAU) was announced on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Defense in its press release noting the “inaugural trilateral meeting” of North American...
Legal Spat with Koch Bros. Risky for Cato Institute
The death of William Niskanen (left), chairman of the Cato Institute, on October 26, 2011, should have been noted and his life’s work honored quietly by his friends and...
New Evidence Clashes With Preconceived Conclusions in Florida Shooting
The shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin (left) has drawn national attention to the incident with many commentators already drawing conclusions about guilt and innocence in the matter. New...
Obama’s Surprise Nominee to World Bank, Jim Yong Kim
Friday’s announcement by President Obama that his nominee for president of the World Bank would be Dartmouth College’s President Jim Yong Kim (left) was a surprise, for a number...
New Book Reprises Old Keynesian Canards
On April 3 the book White House Burning, authored by two hard-core Keynesian economists and internationalists, will be released, and the noisy propaganda surrounding its publication has already begun...
Speech: Bernanke Fails at Transparency, Rails at Gold Standard
When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke donned his professorial cap and addressed 30 undergraduate students at George Washington University on Tuesday, he claimed it was all in the interest...
Energy Independence for America?
On top of recent articles at The New American here, here and here about huge oil deposits in the United States, now comes Ed Morse, writing in the Wall...
White House Shifts Legal Gears as ObamaCare Heads to Supreme Court
The pressure of the continuing countdown to Monday, March 26, when the Supreme Court takes on the challenge to ObamaCare, has forced legal advisors to the White House to...
Obama Economic Recovery Still Underwater
For proof that the Obama “recovery” remains unimpressive compared to previous recoveries, Cato Institute scholar Dan Mitchell gathered evidence from a number of sources to make his point. ...
Is Ryan’s Budget Plan Headed in the Right Direction?
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced on Tuesday the Republican budget plan to take into the election debate; it is in sharp contrast to the Obama administration’s budget announced last...
NSA’s Spy Program “Stellar Wind” Exposed
The lead story in Wired magazine for April exposed the Stellar Wind program for its intended purpose: to spy on every jot and tittle of every American citizen’s life...