Obama Announces New Fuel Economy Standards
The Obama administration has unveiled a new round of fuel economy standards for cars and trucks, which are expected to require mileage gains...
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Gold Hits Record High — and It’s Going Higher
When public debt abounds, politicians look to slippery ways to keep buying votes with tax dollars while reassuring skittish markets that everything is...
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Using the Food Crisis
According to internationally acclaimed author and highly regarded expert Lester Brown (pictured), writing in the January 10 issue of Foreign Policy magazine: ...
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Food Prices Rocket
Eighty-year-old Dottie Bell is a volunteer at the Community Market food bank in Opelika, Alabama, and every day she sees the impact of...
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Obama Administration Attempts to Revise Mortgage Program
Seemingly unaware of the nation’s debt crisis, the federal government is attempting to revamp its foreclosure-prevention program to make it easier for out-of-work...
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Tiny Alto, Texas, Not the First to Mothball Its Police Dept
The city council of tiny Alto, Texas — population 1,200, about 140 miles southeast of Dallas — shuttered its police department on June...
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Obama Administration Proposes Doubling Gas Mileage Standards by 2025
If the Obama administration gets its way, you can kiss your next SUV — and possibly your life, if you're involved in an...
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Fueling High Gas Prices
On the day President Obama took office in January of 2009, regular unleaded gasoline was selling nationally at an average price of $1.83...
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“Government Motors” Gives Taxpayers the Crankshaft
General Motors and Chrysler, so the story goes, have repaid the dollars the federal government loaned them to keep them from going belly...
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Pension Woes of Alabama Town a Warning to Others
The city of Prichard, Alabama, is the best proof that more states need Governors such as New Jersey’s Chris Christie, who is willing...
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Obama’s Dodgy Remarks on Auto Industry Bailout
President Barack Obama has lately been touting the government’s takeover of two of the Big Three automakers as an unqualified success. This is...
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Economists Tell Congress to Enact Spending Cuts
Economists Richard M. Ebeling and Matthew J. Slaughter testified before the House Monetary Policy Subcommittee May 11 and agreed that spending must be...
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Fannie and Freddie: Still Mortgaging America’s Future to Stay in Business
Need more proof — besides the staggering national debt — that the federal government is totally incompetent in fiscal matters? Three years after...
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Tornadoes Worsen Economy of Alabama, Other Southern States
The state of Alabama was already struggling with high unemployment when it was pummeled by tornadoes last week. As businesses and homes have...
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Bernanke Press Conference Proclaims Inflation Not a Problem
Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters at the Fed's first ever press conference April 27 that the Fed's Open Market Committee will...
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