Opinion

UN Panel to Say World Should Ditch Dollar

A United Nations panel is about to recommend that the world abandon the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, according to a Reuters...

Charles Scaliger March 19, 2009

Fed Bailouts More Outrageous Than AIG Bonuses

Charles Scaliger March 17, 2009

All of the feigned outrage in Washington over the millions that AIG has been doling out in bonus payments, and the tens of...

Obama Budget: A New Era of Irresponsibility

Thomas R. Eddlem March 16, 2009

President Barack Obama has just recently released his $3.55 trillion fiscal 2010 budget, and already there's full employment among all the people who...

G20 Consensus Hostile to Free Market

Charles Scaliger March 16, 2009

If the talk at the G20 gathering in England is any indication, the hard-beset global economy is stuck between the devil and the...

AIG, Bailouts, and the Banks

Charles Scaliger March 9, 2009

Official Washington is an a tizzy over new revelations, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and dutifully amplified by other news outlets, that...

A “Just” War or Just a War?

Dennis Behreandt March 6, 2009

From Korea to Iraq, America has waged undeclared war; Laurence Vance's Christianity and War sheds light on how this war making corresponds to...

The Inflation Tax

Gary Benoit March 4, 2009

If the American taxpayers knew how much the federal government was actually costing them, there is no doubt that it would be much...

Economy Killers

Kurt Williamsen March 3, 2009

“The only way to fully restore America’s economic strength is to make long-term investments that will lead to new jobs, new industries, and...

“The International” Banks on a Bit of Truth

Steven J. DuBord March 3, 2009

The tag line for the new movie The International runs: "They control your money. They control your government. They control your life. And...

Stimulating Government, Not the Economy

Steven J. DuBord March 2, 2009

ITEM: The New York Times reported on January 28, 2009: The stimulus bill ... is not just a package of spending increases...

What the Shrinking GDP Means

Thomas R. Eddlem March 1, 2009

The U.S. economy shrank at an annualized rate of 6.2 percent in the final quarter of 2008, almost double the 3.8 percent contraction...

Obama Outlined Economic Fascism to Congress

Thomas R. Eddlem February 25, 2009

President Barack Obama outlined a financial plan in his February 24 address to Congress that meshes eerily with the fascist economic plan Benito...

Could Bush Be Prosecuted?

Thomas R. Eddlem February 19, 2009

Two recently published books address the possibility of prosecuting George W. Bush and top Bush administration officials for crimes committed while in office....