A hockey-stick chart you can believe in
Unfortunately it's a representation of US unemployment for the last decade. And this time, no one is fudging the data. (via Gateway Pundit)...
Category: Economics
Another Amazingly Unforeseen Consequence That Plenty Of Us Foresaw
A couple of years ago, when Congress was debating raising the national minimum wage, quite a few detractors of the plan (myself included) said that the move -- couched …
Obama’s Treasury Department Lifts Bailout Caps on Fannie and Freddie
The administration made its announcement on Christmas Eve night. Transparency, baby! We knew all along that Fannie and Freddie are nothing but arms of the US government. Obama's action …
What has liberalism wrought?
Steve Crowder answers in a most unfunny way with one word. Detroit. A foreshadowing? Crossposted(*)....
"If this is success, what does failure look like?"
Dean Baker on Ben Bernanke: The Senate finance committee overwhelmingly voted to approveBen Bernanke for another four-year term as Federal Reserve board chairman. This is a remarkable event since …
"This agenda will cost millions of jobs, plunging more people into poverty"
Bob Ellis at The Dakota Voice: The schemes being dreamed up by these apostles of doom are intended to take one person's hard-earned money away from them and give …
"According to what the science is telling us"
I find the following interview with Naomi Klein fascinating... for a variety of reasons... chief amongst them is that our go-to Religious Leftist is pushing the interview... that Ms. …
Hold onto your wallet – They've found a way to rob us again
There is another outrage that Congress and the Administration is about to inflict upon us. From Donald Marron, head of the CBO during the Bush years of 2002-2009, we …
Take Our Jobs, Please!
The term "outsourcing" has been bandied about for years, becoming political fodder for politicians trying to score points with constituents, at the same time demonizing corporations. Outsourcing is a …
What the Dubai Default Means to the U.S.
As Ed Glasier wrote in the NY Times: Last Wednesday, the government of Dubai announced the restructuring of Dubai World, one of the emirate's three state-owned investment giants, which …