CBO Report Projects $30 Trillion Deficit by 2026
A report released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal debt will be $30 trillion within a decade, citing...
Economics
Will the Fed’s Manipulations Lead to a Sound Money Revolution?
The Federal Reserve will not be audited any time soon, but its manipulations may soon lead to a sound money revolution. ...
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Congress, White House Ignore Grim CBO Debt Report
With the country heading toward ever-increasing debt, neither the Republican Congress nor the Democrat president appear prepared to take the needed action to...
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Senate Blocks “Audit the Fed,” Preserving Central Bank Secrecy
Democrats and one Republican in the U.S. Senate joined forces on January 12 to protect the Federal Reserve from transparency and accountability, voting...
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Major Study Shows U.S. Middle Class No Longer a Majority
The U.S. middle class, which for more than four decades comprised the majority of Americans, has declined to the point where it makes...
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After Obama Signed Debt Limit Bill, Debt Rose $339B on Same Day
On November 2, the day President Obama signed a bill suspending the federal government’s $18.1-trillion debt limit until March 15, 2017, the total...
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Cato: American Decline Accelerating
The latest report from the Cato Institute comes on top of a long and increasingly unhappy series of reports on freedom’s decline in...
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Seattle’s Coming $15 Minimum Wage
What can be wrong with mandating that workers get paid more money? Interviews with small business owners in Seattle, where the minimum wage...
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UN Dictators Club to Convene “World Humanitarian Summit”
Yes, yet another UN summit, in this year of unending global summits, where globalists, the UN’s self-important corrupt bureaucrats, and some of the...
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California’s “Equal Pay” Law Will Discourage Businesses, Encourage Lawyers
Come January, California's new “equal pay” law will serve nicely as additional incentive for more California companies to leave the state. ...
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The Real Unemployment Picture
Where the state of the American economy is concerned, there are the official unemployment figures, and there are the real figures. Guess which...
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Public Pension Plans Cut Rate of Return Targets; Still Not Enough
An underfunded pension plan can be compared to the welfare state in America: Beneficiaries are going to be sorely disappointed. ...
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CBO Report on National Debt Paints Grim Picture
If Congress does not address the growing national debt, Congressional Budget Office Director Keith Hall warned, it will soon reach a "tipping point."...
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Seattle’s Minimum-wage Increase Starting to Cost Jobs
Progressives in Seattle suffer from a blind spot — economic reality — that is causing exactly the opposite reaction to their new minimum-wage...
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Social Security Disability Trust Fund Could Be Depleted by Late 2016
The Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees stated that “Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund now faces an urgent threat of...
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