Economics

Are Economic Stimulus Programs Worth the Price of Admission?

The International Monetary Fund is urging G-20 nations to consider a coordinated implementation of fiscal and monetary stimulus to counteract signs of a...

Walter McLaughlin February 29, 2016

Negative Interest Rates: Helpful Tool or Central Bank Madness?

Walter McLaughlin February 16, 2016

Heavy doses of monetary policy have become the norm throughout the Western world over the past few decades, with the lowering of interest...

Venezuela Could See Hyperinflation, Economic Collapse

Bob Adelmann February 4, 2016

With high levels of inflation and general economic malaise affecting Venezuala, some experts say the country has passed "the point of no return."...

The Lessons of Ronald Reagan in Battling America’s Economic Malaise

Walter McLaughlin February 4, 2016

Last Friday, the Commerce Department released its initial estimate of U.S. economic growth for the fourth quarter of 2015, and the news was...

$19 Trillion and Counting

Charles Scaliger February 2, 2016

Up and up goes the debt, freed now from any "debt ceilings." How and when the insanity will stop is anyone's guess. ...

CBO Report Projects $30 Trillion Deficit by 2026

Raven Clabough January 26, 2016

A report released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal debt will be $30 trillion within a decade, citing...

Will the Fed’s Manipulations Lead to a Sound Money Revolution?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 24, 2016

The Federal Reserve will not be audited any time soon, but its manipulations may soon lead to a sound money revolution. ...

Congress, White House Ignore Grim CBO Debt Report

Steve Byas January 21, 2016

With the country heading toward ever-increasing debt, neither the Republican Congress nor the Democrat president appear prepared to take the needed action to...

Senate Blocks “Audit the Fed,” Preserving Central Bank Secrecy

Alex Newman January 13, 2016

Democrats and one Republican in the U.S. Senate joined forces on January 12 to protect the Federal Reserve from transparency and accountability, voting...

Major Study Shows U.S. Middle Class No Longer a Majority

Warren Mass December 10, 2015

The U.S. middle class, which for more than four decades comprised the majority of Americans, has declined to the point where it makes...

After Obama Signed Debt Limit Bill, Debt Rose $339B on Same Day

Warren Mass November 4, 2015

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...

Cato: American Decline Accelerating

Bob Adelmann November 3, 2015

The latest report from the Cato Institute comes on top of a long and increasingly unhappy series of reports on freedom’s decline in...

Seattle’s Coming $15 Minimum Wage

Clinton Alexander October 28, 2015

What can be wrong with mandating that workers get paid more money? Interviews with small business owners in Seattle, where the minimum wage...

UN Dictators Club to Convene “World Humanitarian Summit”

William F. Jasper October 13, 2015

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...