Major U.S. Companies Park Money Overseas to Save on Taxes
In a stunning depiction of how bad our tax code has become, the Wall Street Journal on March 10 found that 60 major...
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Friday’s Surprisingly Strong Jobs Numbers Aren’t Real
According to Friday's Labor Department report, the economy generated 236,000 new jobs in February, dropping the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent. But these...
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Ammo Shortages: More Than Simple Supply and Demand?
Despite much speculation that huge government agency orders for billions of rounds of ammunition are deliberately designed to result in "de facto" gun...
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Gas Prices May Drop in Short Term, But Will Likely Stay High
The price of gasoline, according to the Energy Information Administration, may fall in the near future, but will likely rise again and continue...
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Time Warner Continues to Shrink, May Sell Off Most of Its Magazines
The announcement that Time Warner may be selling most of its magazines to another publisher is more evidence of its continuing loss of...
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Newsweek’s Last Print Issue Is December 31
The decision to stop printing Newsweek magazine after Monday, December 31, reflects a change not only in how its subscribers access the news...
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Regulators R Us: Feds Crank Up Regulations — on Everything
Get set for the Obama administration’s post-election tsunami of business-killing, job-killing, economy-killing federal regulations. It’s already begun. Take a look at www.regulations.gov, the...
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American Manufacturing Loses Another Member
The graveyard of American businesses is receiving another occupant. Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania-based apparel manufacturer FesslerUSA, over 100 years old, is closing its doors. The...
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Dodd and Frank: The Dukes of Moral Hazard
According to the text of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the law is supposed “to promote the financial...
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Looking Behind the Latest Jobs Report Numbers
Friday’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated that “total non-farm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate...
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Electric Car Battery Maker Goes Bankrupt Despite $500M in Subsidies
Another day, another subsidized “green energy” firm going bankrupt. This time it’s A123 Systems Inc., a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of batteries for electric cars...
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Making Sense of Friday’s Jobs Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its latest jobs report on October 5 and confounded nearly everyone. The first part of the report, based...
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Jury Clears Minnesota Farmer of Raw Milk Charges
In what his attorney called “a huge victory for food freedom,” a Minnesota farmer was acquitted by a jury of the “crime” of...
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With Moody’s New Rules, Public Pension Plans Even More Woefully Underfunded
Moody’s, one of the big three credit rating agencies, has announced new rules to be effective on September 1 that bring an additional...
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Food Freedom Fighters Organize Lemonade Freedom Day
Selling lemonade, raw milk, or any other comestible is not a crime. That is the message of the second annual Lemonade Freedom Day....
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