Category: Economics

Of course, you wouldn't know any of this if you only paid attention to the mainstream media, but believe it or not, things are getting better -- through no …

I caught a little bit of a discussion about Barack Obama's tax proposal recently. One element is raising the tax rate on the top bracket of income taxes from …

One of the recent proposals put forth to address the condition of four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline, was to find a way to make it cost more. Some folks seem to think, …

We're seeing the third largest bank failure in United States history today with the seizure of IndyMac by federal regulators (emphasis added): IndyMac Bank, a prolific mortgage specialist that …

The Democrats meddling with the economy when they increased minimum wage last year, that's what. Unsurprisingly, the largest portion of the unemployment rate increase was due to the increase …

Earlier today, I heard an NPR feature on the subprime mortgage crisis. They interviewed one guy who was in trouble with his mortgage, in arrears and facing foreclosure. They …

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, …

One of the things I most love is when I make a pronouncement about something, and then events conspire to provide me with a ready-made example of why I'm …

On another blog, I had the pleasure to exchange opinions with a bloglodyte. What earned this fellow that sobriquet was not the fact that he and I disagreed, but …

Well, Hillary Clinton has her plan for fixing the gas price problem. And from what I can tell, her idea of "fixing" the situation closely resembles what a lot …