Category: Economics

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof highlighted some heartbreaking cases of how our “safety net” powerfully disincentivizes activities like learning and advancement, perpetuating the cycle of dependence. This is …

Grover Norquist worries that Obama is like a bad episode of Seinfeld and might prove unable to learn from his past mistakes pushing us over the fiscal cliff whether …

From The Sacramento Bee: Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation’s highest marginal income tax rates — nearly 52 percent — if …

In a November 28 article, the Associated Press tried to give cover to Democrats by insisting that they are somehow divided over cuts in entitlements to help solve the …

Mickey Kaus has alerted readers to a change in the way the federal government figures the poverty line and that new way so alters the formula that we will …

AEI’s Marc Thiessen, writing in The Washington Post has a history-based warning for President Obama and Democrats in relation to the “fiscal cliff:” Obama thinks he has a lot …

This week the SEIU sent out an email to its members hoping to drum up some hate against the fast food chain Wendy’s. The email not only had one …

Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) delivered the GOP weekly address and it was a damn good one. He pulled no punches and laid it out straight that Obama lied …

Susan Ferrechio at The Washington Examiner sumarizes the current state of “fiscal cliff” negotiations: The White House on Thursday offered House Republicans a deal that would raise $1.6 trillion …

The biggest union news this month is the pending closing of the Hostess Brand snack cake corporation, a company that has been an American mainstay for decades with such …