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...
Economics
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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Texas Launches Gold-backed Bank, Challenging Federal Reserve
The State of Texas is setting up a gold-backed bank that will allow depositors to bypass the controversial Federal Reserve System and its...
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Globalist Assault on Tax Competition Rouses Opposition
As part of what experts call a war on tax competition and low taxes, a coalition of high-tax governments from around the world...
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Has the Federal Reserve Sold the Gold at Fort Knox?
Is there gold at Fort Knox? Has the Federal Reserve sold it in order to manipulate the economy? An audit might answer these...
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More Proof People Are Moving From High Tax States
Americans are exercising the freedom to move from high-tax, high-debt, Democrat-controlled states to more free ones. ...
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U.S. Financial Outlook has “Worsened Dramatically”
In its just-released report “The 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” the Congressional Budget Office stated bluntly that the long-term outlook for the federal budget...
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Is Push by Cities for Higher Minimum Wage a Good Idea?
Seattle, Los Angeles, and many other cities are passing minimum-wage laws; however, history has shown that wages and prices should be set by...
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Kansas Considers Tax Increases Just as Its Economy Revives
It's to be hoped that common sense prevails in Topeka. It's far too soon to end the experiment which would quash the economic...
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Ben Carson Favors Raising Minimum Wage, But Is That a Good Idea?
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson thinks the federal government should decide wages. ...
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Fair Trade Advocates Pan Obama’s Nike Visit
President Obama picked what appears to be an odd venue for a speech today promoting a pending trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ...
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Corporate Globalists Hold Off-record Meeting With Congress Staffers on TPA
Global Business Dialogue, a key corporatist lobbying group for so-called Free Trade agreements, is upping the pressure for passage of “Fast Track” Trade...
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