Category: Economics

Plenty of evidence has existed before, but now the conclusion is inescapable: the Democrats cannot understand the most basic law of economics, the law of supply and demand. Faced with spiraling fuel costs and a demand to act, the Democrat-controlled …

Until quite recently, the advantages of being underfunded (poor) were under appreciated in these quarters. To me, poor has always meant less material goods, less influence, less party time, less everything. Which is not cool by any standards.

If Senator Obama’s magic change-wand truly works, the change we need is eradication from our society of the degraded and debauched ethos of liberal-progressive-socialism that led us to inflation and near collapse of financial markets. It is currently fashionable …

The New York Times this week said The U.S. government is considering taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if their problems worsen, causing shares of the mortgage finance companies to plunge.Shares of Fannie fell 27 percent and shares …

What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? While a certain unflattering noun would leap to the minds of most, we …

With all due respect to the Democrat Party and RINOs. the energy “crisis” cannot be solved by sticking one’s head in the sand and pretending that the automobile is a right-wing fad that will die out once Americans discover the …

Few things illustrate Democrat’s penchant for preying on people’s fears better than Social Security. Proposing changes to Social Security produces hysteria from any Democrat near a microphone. Barack Obama is no different as evidenced by his comments earlier this week.

The just-stalled Senate bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions reflects a basic doctrine of the socialist religion: government bureaucrats are smarter and more effective managers than businessmen and should be empowered to set the rules for running private business. …

Are you sick and tired of being ignored by your government? Are you angry about having to pay outrageous gasoline and food prices while your elected representatives consider legislation which, if enacted, will only make matters worse? Do you believe …

America’s inability to free itself from dependence on oil from the Middle East may go down as one of the greatest failures in U.S. political history. Even the most generous historian will find it difficult to justify our continued reliance …

The generation who fought the War of Independence and wrote the Constitution understood that all political and economic power resided in the citizenry as individuals and that the people were, with great care and caution, granting certain limited and defined …

Sen. John KERRY: Mister Giant, you are an obscenely wealthy man. Some would even say you haven’t legitimately earned this obscene wealth of yours. How do you respond to those criticisms? Mr. Jolly Green GIANT: People have got a …

Have you heard? The economy sucks. Maybe you have read about it in the newspaper, on various internet sites or even heard about it on the evening news or the radio. That is, if you can even …

How about I ask you if you “feel” like you make enough money each year? Let’s say you make $48,000 a year, OK? (That’s the median household income in the US) You’ll likely tell me, then that you “feel” you …

Keynesian economic doctrine, not under that name, but in substance, is back in the news in a truly menacing way. Senator Obama proposes to repeat the policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal that turned an ordinary two-year recession into an …