Bloodbath Coming?
White House deficit commission co-chairman Alan Simpson spoke at a Christian Science Monitor roundtable on Friday morning saying, “I can’t wait for the...
Economic Commentary
The National Debt: Scary Facts, False Conclusions, and Gumption
When Anthony Mason, CBS News' senior business correspondent, visited the Treasury Room, he called...
Getting Rich from the TSA Naked-Body Scanners
With all the commotion over the invasiveness of the naked-body scanners used by the...
Exposing the Fed: The Ben “Bernank” YouTube Video and the Emperor’s New Clothes
William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, defended the...
Will Hyper-Inflation “Solve” States’ Debt Woes?
California is drowning in public debt. The California Legislative Analyst’s office, which is nominally...
Roubini v. Rockwell on the Gold Standard
New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini made a name for himself back in...
Tax Cuts for the Good Guys
Speaking on one of the political television shows before the election, Vice President Joe...
World Bank’s Trial Balloon Pops
Before the Internet, Robert Zoellick’s brief outline of suggested topics for the G20 meeting...
John Allison: Free Market Banker
When asked during an “Online with Terry Jeffrey” interview about how to solve the...
Behind the Numbers: October Employment Report
Even though 151,000 new real jobs were added in October, according to the Bureau...
Restoring the American Dream
The incessant and never-ending drumbeat of bad news about the economy was deftly summarized...
Fed Celebrates Its 100th Birthday
In a remarkable show of both contempt and hubris, the Federal Reserve System announced...
Federal Mass Transit a Big Flop
Central planning seldom makes economic sense. However good a scheme looks on paper in...
Stimulus Dollars Leave America
Government never “stimulates” economic growth. Left quite alone, people engage in rational commerce guided...
EPA Proposes More Regulations
In yet another economically destructive ploy to “go green,” the Environmental Protection Agency has...
The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis
Let us be blunt: The mortgage foreclosure crisis, which first burst into full public...
The Federal Reserve Makes Plan to Increase the Money Supply — Again
The notes of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve, released on Tuesday, clearly...
Recession Over? Pardon My Disbelief
On September 22, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic...
A Primer in Protectionism
Despite opaque and dissembling arguments that what the world needs now is a world...
Greenspan’s Fear and Trembling
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is worried about many things. In...