Category: Economics

This is the time of year when 2012 prediction lists abound. I am struck by how many lists have included some reference to a surge in American entrepreneurship during the next year. Entrepreneurs are clearly being counted upon to act …

I cannot help it. I have to defend Mitt Romney from idiocy. Yes, I know the man is a RINO. However even a RINO deserves to be defended when the attacks against him are unwarranted and so utterly crackpot in …

There is a remarkable article in the January 3rd Wall Street Journal by Andy Kessler, a hedge fund manager turned author. In it, he proposes a novel idea – namely, while acknowledging substantial income inequality in the US, he asserts …

I live in Western Pennsylvania, just across the county line from where former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum grew up. My wife went to the same high school as Santorum. I’ve followed his career very closely. I’m surprised—but I’m not surprised—by …

Some people have fretted, suffering high anxiety, because the Mayan calender supposedly shows the world ending on December 21, 2012. Well, 2012 is finally here. I do not expect that the world will end, or even that mankind …

We have arrived at a great divide. Does America want to become a capitalistic beacon or a socialistic albatross? You can’t have both! The Obama deficit is skyrocketing nationally and it needs to be stopped. Spending money we don’t have …

Many DC–area residents have a taxi story. Few have happy endings. Mine occurred on a very rainy day at Union Station. I’d been shuffling along in an endless taxi line when my turn finally arrived. The cab pulls up and …

Rush Limbaugh has a reputation for being right 97.6 percent of the time. The percentage is probably a little understated. He hasn’t endorsed any of the Republican candidates and probably will not until there are votes cast in the upcoming …

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 …

By Jarrett Skorup

“No matter your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protesters were right in at least one respect: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.”

In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.”

By: Steve Irwin

Shale is becoming a household name, from discussions around kitchen tables to town halls with (sometimes) angry citizens. Endless media coverage, economic analysis, geological prediction, business maneuvers and political debate encompass this complex topic. Even the experts concede …

If you have been listening to President Obama lately, you would be getting the impression that the American people want to do anything but work. That might be true of his core constituency in the Occupy Wall Street movement, but …

By now, America has seen enough of the bad behavior of the ‘Occupy’ movement protesters.

That aside, it’s easy to understand their frustrations when it comes to the excesses of Wall Street.

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, was a giddy day for European politicians and global investors. European Union officials announced a plan for addressing the EU’s worst financial problems. There would be a partial write-down of Greek sovereign debt—a 50 percent haircut …