What If the Debt Ceiling Isnt Raised?
Following the petulant pronouncement from the Obama administration’s chief economics advisor that any suggestion of not raising the debt ceiling was engaging in...
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Congressional Pushback
Now that the 112th Congress has been sworn in and subjected to the reading of the Constitution and its 27 amendments, the direction...
Austan Goolsbee’s Petulance
During Sunday’s interview on ABC’s This Week with the Obama administration’s chief economics advisor, Austan Goolsbee, he warned opponents not to treat the...
The 112th Congress: Real Substance, or Just Smoke?
When the House of Representatives announced new rules for the Congress that convenes on Wednesday, the mainstream media immediately called them “strict” and...
Housing Prices to Fall Further
When Bloomberg polled so-called real estate “experts” about the housing market, they expected a slight pull-back in housing prices of perhaps 0.2 percent...
Prof. Alfred Kahn, Father of Airline Deregulaton, Passes Away
Professor Alfred Kahn, best known as “the father of airline deregulation,” died Monday at age 93. His obituary from Cornell reminded his students...
Unfunded Municipal Pensions: Conveyor Belt to Oblivion
For years the small town of Prichard, Alabama knew they were in trouble. Back in 2004, the city hired an actuary to analyze...
Boomers Aren’t Booming
Despite their huge numbers and cultural and financial impact on the economy, the Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) have largely been...
FCC Ruling is Irrelevant
There have been sighs of despair and much hand-wringing coming from observers of the latest attempt by the FCC to intervene in the...
Reality Checks from New Jersey, Illinois
Steve Kroft called it "The Day of Reckoning" on his "60 Minutes" segment on Sunday, but many weren't buying it. Despite persuasive statistics...
The College Graduate Bubble: One Student’s Story
Cortney Munna bought the lie, hook, line and sinker. The College Board has been selling it for years: “Over the course of a...
Obama/CEO Summit: Sweetness and Light
Despite being verbally abused and legislatively hamstrung ever since the start of the Obama administration, those CEOs arriving at the Blair House Wednesday...
College Education: Is It Worth it?
Back in September, The College Board published an update of its report, “College Pays,” confirming what most have considered inarguable and revealed truth:...
Counting the Costs of Unemployment Insurance
As part of the backroom deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for another two years, the GOP gave the progressives an extension...
WikiLeaks: Asking the Right Questions
Nearly everyone with an internet connection knows the website WikiLeaks.org to be the notorious publisher of inconvenient truths about the secret machinations of...