Recession is Over?
With a straight face, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that the Great Recession ended last June. June of 2009, that...
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Who is Mike Pence?
In an early straw poll, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) was the choice for presidential nominee in 2012 over such conservative luminaries as Sarah...
Reids Lame Duck Session: Just Mopping Up?
Last Tuesday, September 7, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he intended to focus the current lame duck session on "mopping...
The Impeachment of Judge Porteous
The impeachment of Judge G. Thomas Porteous of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana appeared initially to be an...
Austan Goolsbee Is Obamas New Top Economic Adviser
Few were surprised when President Obama replaced Christina Romer, chair of his Council of Economic Advisers, with another statist economist, Austan Goolsbee. Goolsbee...
NFL Means No Free Lunch for Taxpayers
When the 82,566 fans of the New York Giants cheer their team at the home opener of the season this Sunday at the...
Finally, a Sensible Solution to Unemployment
When Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in Bloomberg.com that “the biggest problem with the labor market...
Why Reich Is Wrong
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered his solutions for ending the Great Recession in the New York Times, he repeated the same...
Will the U.S. Bail Out Kabul Bank?
The bank run at Afghanistan’s largest bank, Kabul Bank, was precipitated by the takeover of the bank by Da Afghanistan Bank, the country’s...
Fed’s Bernanke Running Out of Options
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on Friday at the Fed’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed-watchers from around the world will...
Obama Needs Your 401(k) to Balance His Budget
The Obama administration is “taking the first steps to confiscate retirement dollars,” according to Dr. Jerome Corsi who predicts that the end result...
SEC Charges NJ With Cooking the Books
Notable in the statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week that it was charging the State of New Jersey with...
Gun-control Laws Challenged After Supreme Court Ruling
On June 28, the day the Supreme Court ruled in McDonald v. Chicago that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms,...
Truth About 9/11 Revisited
When Alexander Zaitchik’s article, “Top 10 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories,” was published, it went viral, with the article being available online immediately here and...
Fiscal Challenges: A Way Out
Economist Niall Ferguson of Harvard wrote an article entitled “Complexity and Collapse” for the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the...