Is the Housing Market Beginning to Clear?
The conflicting news reports on the housing market can give the casual observer a headache: “December Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Jump to...
Economic Commentary
Tax Group Urges Halt to Wasteful Military Jet Engine Project
A citizens' taxpayer watchdog group is urging President Obama and the Department of Defense...
Banks Still Suffering
Keeping in mind that the “beige book” report from the Federal Reserve yesterday is...
Food Prices Paving Way for Social Unrest
As world food prices continue to approach crisis levels, and global demand continues to...
Paul Volcker: Insights From an Insider
With the announcement by Reuters that former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was going...
Tracing the Japanese Experiment
The United States' current corporate tax rate is far from competitive. Average combined...
Housing Prices to Fall Further
When Bloomberg polled so-called real estate “experts” about the housing market, they expected a...
Boomers Aren’t Booming
Despite their huge numbers and cultural and financial impact on the economy, the Baby...
Obama/CEO Summit: Sweetness and Light
Despite being verbally abused and legislatively hamstrung ever since the start of the Obama...
Stimulating Recovery of the Economy, or Graft?
Earlier this month the Recover Progress Report summarized, "As of December 1, $466.8 billion...
Greed Pays: Tax Cuts and Economic Prosperity
"Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good. Greed works. ...
Washington Suburbs Surviving Recession
America is in the throes of economic hardship. Certain regions of the country, the...
Counting the Costs of Unemployment Insurance
As part of the backroom deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for another...
Similar Inflation Patterns in the United States and Britain
The Associated Press in London reports that Britain’s consumer inflation rose to 3.3 percent...
Is Your Gold Safe in the Bank?
More and more people in affluent societies are turning to gold as a hedge...
States’ Budget Shortfalls: Pressure From Above, Pressure from Below
With all the attention being focused on extending the “Bush tax cuts,” granting additional...
The Fed’s Bernanke: Hubris and Dissimulation
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent 60 Minutes interview raised more questions than it answered....
National Review Supports Fed’s QE2 as “Conservative”
National Review, the putative voice of political conservatism, continues to flack for the Federal...
Breaking Hauser’s Law
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, chairman emeritus of the Hoover Institution, Kurt Hauser,...
Sino-Russian Abandonment of the Dollar
The long-awaited international renunciation of the dollar has begun. ...