Economic Commentary
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...
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...
Read moreCan 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreIs 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...
Read moreFederal 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...
Read moreHitting 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...
Read moreTax 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...
Read moreInsider 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,...
Read moreRunaway 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...
Read moreChina: 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”...
Read moreCollective 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...
Read moreGeorge Soros Funded by the House of Rothschild
In 1987, as a freshman in college, I walked into the university library and took down a tome entitled the House of Rothschild....
Read moreMending Our Monetary Maladies
Edwin Vieira, Jr. is an attorney who has won three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. He earned four degrees...
Read moreStates’ Pension Woes Worsening
The latest study by The Pew Center on the States shows not only that states have not funded the promises they made to...
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