Economic Commentary

Military General Advocates Cuts in Military Spending

Usually when U.S. citizens argue in favor of downsizing the military budget, they are treated as anti-American by neoconservatives and other "hawks." When...

Raven Clabough September 1, 2011

Krueger Is Obama’s Economic Council Chairman Pick

Bob Adelmann August 31, 2011

Next week President Obama will roll out his strategic jobs growth plan in a major speech, and has announced that his new chairman...

Thanks to Hurricane Irene, Business Is Booming!

Bob Adelmann August 31, 2011

According to Laura Chanthalath, manager at High’s Chimney Service, business is booming. Located in Gaithersburg, Maryland, her company might rebuild one chimney a...

Obama’s Seven New Regulations Would Cost U.S. Economy Billions

Brian Koenig August 31, 2011

President Obama sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Tuesday detailing seven new regulations that would each cost the U.S. economy...

Canada’s Remarkable Economic Recovery

Bob Adelmann August 30, 2011

In its annual Index of Economic Freedom, the joint effort by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal, Canada ranks 6th among...

Second Chance in Debt Deluge

Charles Scaliger August 25, 2011

With the raising of the debt ceiling, the “official” federal debt immediately surged past a new and unwelcome benchmark: The national debt now...

Rural Greece Falls Back on Self-Reliance

Bruce Walker August 25, 2011

Roger Jinkinson is a British writer, and he lives in a remote Greek village on the island of Karpathos (left). Although the village is...

The Postmaster General’s Challenges

Bob Adelmann August 25, 2011

In his report to a Senate subcommittee Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe (left) spelled out clearly why the U.S. Postal Service can’t make any...

UN Bureaucrats Receive Pay Hike

James Heiser August 25, 2011

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon believes that there is a global environmental crisis that requires looting the Western economies to the tune...

Forget TARP — the Real Bailout Came from the Fed

Charles Scaliger August 24, 2011

Since its inception almost a century ago, the Federal Reserve has enjoyed a cloak of secrecy that has grown more opaque over the...

$490,000 Stimulus to Grow Trees in Nev. Yields Just 1.72 Permanent Jobs

Brian Koenig August 23, 2011

The state of Nevada was the fortunate recipient of a $490,000 federal grant to grow trees and plants — and of course, to "stimulate"...

Fed Chairman Bernanke to Address Jackson Hole Symposium

Bob Adelmann August 22, 2011

Wall Street professionals' expectations are modest over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s highly anticipated remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium this Friday. Unlike...