New Unemployment Numbers Conceal Many Issues
January’s unemployment numbers were released late last week. According to the official report, unemployment fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent last month. Employment...
Economic Commentary
“Bankster” Cabal Conspiracy Going Mainstream?
Claims that cabals of “banksters” control much of the world’s economy from behind closed doors have, for years now, been mainstays of those...
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Weak Dollar Obama’s Fault?
According to Newsweek, the dollar isn’t weakening, and even if it is, it isn’t Obama’s fault. On Tuesday, Daniel Gross iterated all the...
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Economy Far From Being Out of the Woods
The evidence is mounting that the American economy is very far from being out of the woods. For one thing, the latest job...
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Geithner Advised AIG to Keep Quiet About $105 Billion Paid to Banks
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has some explaining to do. Both the New York Times and the British Telegraph have reported that e-mails...
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Stock Rally Owing to Plunge Protection Team Conspiracy?
The 60 percent gain in stocks since March was largely caused by secret government purchases of stock-index futures, the CEO of TrimTabs claims....
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Will New Jobs Bill Create Jobs? Republicans Say No
Where do the kinds of jobs that will grow the economy come from? Can the federal government simply create them through more spending?...
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Ponzi Schemes and Social Security
More than $16 billion of investors’ money evaporated in Ponzi schemes in 2009, according to the Associated Press. Although the names Bernie Madoff...
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Fed Backers Seek Power More Than Wealth
The prime architect of the Federal Reserve was German immigrant Paul Warburg. Arriving in America in 1902 with brother Max, he married into...
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The Economy: Cheerleaders vs. Reality
When MSNBC headlined the report that existing home sales surged by 7.4 percent in November (according to the National Association of Realtors), it...
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China Slows U.S. Debt Purchases
Chinese officials have once again publicly stated their intention to buy less U.S. Treasury debt, according to the December 18 Shanghai Daily newspaper....
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Bernanke is “Times'” Man of the Year
With the expiration of one of the most turbulent years, economically speaking, in American history, it is not surprising that Time magazine has...
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Unemployment Wreaking Havoc on Middle America, New Poll Shows
The economic conventional wisdom of the moment is that the U.S. economy has begun to turn around. According to mainstream economists, a tentative...
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Jobs Summit – More talk? Yes. More jobs? No
When ABC News asked if the "jobs summit" would make real progress or would just be "simply a glorified public-relations stunt," it studiously...
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Copenhagen: UN Calls for Trillions in Reparations for “Climate Debt”
The United Nations summit on global warming in Copenhagen is less than a week away, and UN agencies are trying to pre-set the...
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