Category: American Economy

While the Obama Administration has worked tirelessly at minimizing the negative political fallout of its “green jobs” debacle (Solyndra being among the few that gained attention), the nation has yet to fully grasp just how devastating the Obama agenda has …

If you watched President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress, you didn’t see anything new. He did what he does best—campaign for re-election and pay lip service to private enterprise and fiscal responsibility while proposing more top-down economic …

After Obama comes back from his needed vacation, he is going to hit us with the plan of all plans. I betcha you can’t wait. He can!

First off he needs to apologize without being so condescending. And he needs to …

The price of gold has gone on a tear this summer, from slightly under $1500 per ounce to well over $1800 per ounce, and it looks like it wants to go higher. What gives?
 
Well, if you bought gold last spring, …

As the August 2 deadline for a debt-ceiling deal drew near, many expected a big deal that would significantly change the direction of federal fiscal policy. After weeks of tumultuous negotiations, partisan bickering, and impassioned histrionics, the agreement that finally …

There has been so much talk about the debt ceiling, but most of it appears to be false.

The liberals want you to think that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling we will default on all our bills. And the …

Amateur hour at the White House continued this week. President Obama, who swears up and down, cross his heart and hope to die, that he is serious about tackling the federal budget deficit released his proposed budget for fiscal …

Just how safe is gold and how practical is owning it? This is just a novas’ opinion but I have some questions those persons promoting the purchase of gold aren’t answering. In my city every jewelry store, pawn shop and …

Foreign central banks, suffering from the Treasury and Fed-engineered decline in the dollar’s value, are moving new currency reserve investments from the dollar into Euros and Yen.

You know the media has turned into loyal lapdog terriers when a smaller than expected drop in the GDP is reported as a sign that the recession is over. I thought these guys were the guardians of the republic, the …

If the country isn’t better off today than six months ago I’m worried about the next six months. Obama’s statement “If you like what you see so far you haven’t seen anything yet”, scares the hell out of me. And …

Repeated Federal interventions in the economy make businessmen fearful of what the government may do next. And that fear prolongs recessions.

President Obama, whatever his strong points, isn’t an economist. It’s called the “dismal science” for a reason and it results in many people being ignorant of the basic tenets of how an economy operates. So far President Obama hasn’t shown …

Remember when you were a kid and you and your friends would go out and toss around the old pigskin? Then along came the Nerf football? They were softer and squishy; a lot easier to handle and a …

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday’s news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a socialist country. They chortle that …