Germany’s Merkel Yields More Sovereignty to the EU
At a joint briefing on Wednesday with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) announced the next step towards the creation...
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November 15 Was America Recycles Day
To celebrate America Recycles Day, the Tellus Institute published a study showing the benefits of increased recycling, by force if necessary. The Tellus Institute’s...
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Overkill
The first hearing on Rep. Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) bill HR 3261, known as the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA), was held Wednesday in Washington...
Obama’s Reelection Chances Tied to the Economy
Writing in Business Week, Hans Nichols announced that with the improvement in the economy President Obama’s chances for reelection in 2012 are improving...
Harvard Students’ Walkout Shows Their Ignorance
When 70 students attending economics professor Greg Mankiw’s (left) Economics 10 class on November 2nd walked out in protest, they wrote an open...
Gaming the System in Clean Energy Development
The increase in federal subsidies for clean energy development from $17 billion in 2007 to $37 billion in 2010 has resulted in a...
Solyndra Just the Tip of the Iceberg
In late October White House Chief of Staff William Daley (left) ordered a complete review of all loan guarantees the Department of Energy has...
U.S. Debt Downgrade by Chinese Rating Agency Is “Inevitable”
A year ago Dagong Global Credit Rating reduced its rating on the sovereign debt of the United States from AA to A+. In...
Keynesians Diss Republican Candidates
CNN’s article by Charles Riley quoted several of the Republican candidates for President out of context and then asked several unknown Keynesian economists...
The Best Way Back to a Gold Standard
In his Forbes magazine article published Thursday, Nathan Lewis makes it sound easy to get back to a gold standard. After all, it...
Niall Ferguson Ignores God-given Rights
Niall Ferguson (left), professor at Harvard and the London School of Economics, summarized his latest book, Civilization: The West and the Rest for Newsweek...
Worldwide Recession?
Christine Lagarde, managing director for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned that the world faces the risk of a “lost decade” and that...
Jefferson County’s Inevitable Bankruptcy
After three years of trying to solve their self-imposed debt crisis, the Jefferson County, Alabama, commissioners threw in the towel on Wednesday and...
A Hard Look at Italy
With yields on Italy’s 10-year government debt rising sharply higher and beyond the seven-percent ceiling deemed unsustainable, Italy is running out of options...
The Eurozone Continues to Unravel
With Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou agreeing to step down in order to secure more bailout funds from the ECB, attention turned immediately...