UAW Ignores Economic Reality
Organized labor, like the octopus of government, ignores the realities of ordinary life. America is in the midst of a depression and unemployment...
Economic Commentary
Obama Against Extending Bush Tax Cuts
Despite the wave of popular anger over the ongoing recession (no, it hasn’t ended, as just about everybody outside the Beltway has figured...
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NFL Means No Free Lunch for Taxpayers
When the 82,566 fans of the New York Giants cheer their team at the home opener of the season this Sunday at the...
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Finally, a Sensible Solution to Unemployment
When Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in Bloomberg.com that “the biggest problem with the labor market...
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Why Reich Is Wrong
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered his solutions for ending the Great Recession in the New York Times, he repeated the same...
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Obama’s New Stimulus Target: Infrastructure
If it is true, as Albert Einstein is alleged to have said, that insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over...
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When You Know You’re Bankrupt …
You simply can’t make ends meet. You don’t want to spend more than you’re making, but the income is significantly smaller than the...
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Bernanke: More Fed Stimuli if Economy Slumps
After more than two years of intervention in the economy by the Federal Reserve, the economy is showing signs of sliding back into...
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True Federal Debt $202 Trillion, Kotlikoff Says
Think you’re scared enough about the economy, the ballooning deficit, and the prospect of ruinous tax rates and runaway inflation to pay for...
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Fed’s Bernanke Running Out of Options
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on Friday at the Fed’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed-watchers from around the world will...
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Obama “Recovery” Loses Another 500,000 Jobs
Following on the heals of the previous week’s stunning 484,000 new unemployment claims, the rise to 500,000 announced August 19 offers proof that...
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Is Our National Debt Nothing to Worry About?
A national debt is nothing to worry about, because “we owe it to ourselves” —so runs one of the more popular sophisms of...
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Cutting Taxes Is Again in Vogue
Cutting taxes is again in vogue in a Washington, D.C., increasingly dismayed by the utter inability of the massive Obama stimulus package...
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How Relevant Is Ayn Rand Today?
It was news to many when Scott Powell announced that an obscure novel published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged, “may be second to the...
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Fiscal Challenges: A Way Out
Economist Niall Ferguson of Harvard wrote an article entitled “Complexity and Collapse” for the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the...
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