Federal Shipping Law Exacerbates Northeasterners’ Winter Woes
The federal Jones Act, a 1920 shipping law, is forcing the Northeast to import expensive foreign propane for heating homes and preventing New...
Economics
Report Decries Gender Pay Gap, Ignores It in White House
NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver overlooked the very gender wage discrimination extant in the White House that she decries in her latest...
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Highland Park, Michigan, on the Brink of Bankruptcy
Highland Park, Detroit's "own Detroit", has run out of time and money. Bankruptcy of the city once considered Detroit's crown jewel is inevitable....
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Welfare Hits Record Levels After 50 Years of War on Poverty
Fifty years ago this week, President Lyndon Johnson announced the “War on Poverty” during his first State of the Union Speech. Under the...
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America’s Death by Debt and Taxes
How bad are America's fiscal woes? Evaluating our taxation, budgeting, and debt by the numbers paints a very bleak picture, indeed. ...
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1.3 Million Lose Federal Unemployment Benefits; 2 Million More May Follow
Federal unemployment ended Saturday, so now some 1.3 million people won’t be getting their $1,166 (on average) monthly check. By June, another 1.9...
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Judge Declares Detroit Bankrupt; Gives OK to Cut Pensions, Burn Creditors
Many of the lessons being learned the hard way in Detroit's bankruptcy will, unfortunately, have to be learned over and over again. ...
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Implosion of Social Security Disability Ponzi Scheme Accelerates
The mathematically inevitable end of one of the Ponzi schemes in Social Security draws closer as the number of disability recipients continues to...
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Vast Majority Want to Audit the Federal Reserve, Poll Shows
Just one in 10 American adults is opposed to auditing the shadowy Federal Reserve, with an overwhelming 74 percent supporting an audit of...
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Liberal Brookings Institution Admits: Cash for Clunkers a Failure
The left-leaning Brookings Institution admitted in an October 31 report that the Obama administration's “Cash for Clunkers” program was an almost complete waste...
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Some Economists See Inflation as Cure for Sluggish Economy
Janet Yellen, President Obama's choice to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke next year, is among a number of influential economists who would...
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Central Bankers Prepare to Flood the World with More Funny Money
Recent comments by the head of the Bank of England, the U.K.’s powerful central bank, offered further evidence that Western central bankers are...
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IMF Pushes Plan to Plunder Global Wealth
A controversial report released this month by the International Monetary Fund outlines schemes to have big-spending governments with out-of-control debts plunder humanity’s wealth...
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With Dollar Demise in Focus, Beijing Pushes “New World Order”
From establishment mouthpieces in the West to the brutal Communist Chinese regime’s propaganda outlets in the East, discussion and even brazen calls for...
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The Price of Price-gouging Laws
When do government price controls, which are meant to help consumers, hurt consumers? Whenever they are in effect. ...
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