Bernanke: No Economic Recovery Yet; Diesel Index Confirms It
In what could be one of the understatements of 2011, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta on...
Economic Commentary
Real Conservatives Oppose NAFTA
One of the most important, but widely unknown bills currently proposed in Congress is legislation that would end American participation in the North...
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Default Lies Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves
With the European economy in shambles from a seemingly intractable sovereign debt crisis and the United States technically out of money to fund...
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Utah Man Cited After Paying Disputed Medical BIll With 2,500 Pennies
When Jason West of Vernal, Utah, tried to pay his disputed medical bill last week with 2,500 pennies, he was issued...
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In the Founders’ Corner A Balanced Budget Amendment?
Do we need a “Balanced Budget” Amendment? NO! A constitutionally sound, informed electorate could quickly bring about the conditions that would allow the...
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Can Greece Sell Itself Out of Debt?
The calamitous economic plight of the so-called “PIGS” nations of the European Union (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) is well known to the...
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The Federal Reserve Kids Page
In 2006 the Federal Reserve decided it was time to begin to reach out and influence middle schoolers with the party line about...
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Is the Third Time a Charm for Quantitative Easing?
Analysts are warning that the Federal Reserve is gearing up for a third round of quantitative easing, which involves printing money and flooding...
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Federal Reserve Issues Secret Low-interest Loans to Banks
Many were shocked to learn that foreign banks were the largest recipients of the Federal Reserve’s discount loan program during the height of...
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Hitting the Federal Debt Ceiling
That bump you just felt was the U.S. Treasury running up against the federal debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. It happened on May...
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Tax Breaks, Subsidies, and Big Oil
Echoing the Obama administration’s characterization of the tax breaks being enjoyed by the five major oil companies (Exxon, ConocoPhillips, BP America, Shell, and...
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Insider Scoffs at Default Concerns, Blasts Geithner, Bernanke
Although Monday, May 16th is the day the financial world was supposed to end as the federal government’s spending hit the debt ceiling,...
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Runaway Inflation on the Cusp?
Buried in the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on the Consumer Price Index was some disconcerting news. On the...
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China: The New Investment Savior?
The Idaho Statesman in a June 6, 2010 story extolled the efforts of Idaho’s Commerce Secretary Don Dietrich and Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch”...
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Collective Bargaining “Rights”
Don’t let Walker take away our rights.” That claim is repeatedly heard in Wisconsin as public-union workers try to recall Republican state Senators...
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