Category: Economics

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal's Allan Meltzer dared to tackle a rather sensitive question: Why Obamanomics Has Failed. The fact that the Democrats did not even bother …

President Obama lauded the drop in the unemployment rate from 9.7% to 9.5% as a sign of "continuing recovery" in a brief speech at Andrews Air Force Base this …

Elections are primarily driven by the Economy. For all the grand speeches and important issues, every election starts and depends most on the voters' sense of their welfare. This …

When the federal tax incentives for new home purchases dried up, so did the sales. They plummeted by 33%: Sales of new homes collapsed last month, sinking 33 percent …

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting opinion piece on basic economic principles and peoples ability to understand them. As you might expect from a WSJ article, the author …

Having a Central Bank that issues what is known as a reserve currency has its advantages. It also has its disadvantages when the federal government attached to that bank …

Great news! Non farm payrolls rose by 431,000 last month. The not so great news: 411,000 of those jobs were census worker temp jobs. While he was stumping in …

From the time he burst onto the political scene as a leading Presidential candidate, Barack Obama has tried to convince us that he is a firm believer in free …

I guess I already knew this was happening. I knew beforehand that it was inevitable with the policies put in place. But seeing it in print was still depressing …

And why we will soon be in the same toilet:H/T to Ron Wright via email. Crossposted at Brutally Honest....