Category: Economics

In case you're tired of hearing about real life economic problems, you can take heart in the intrusion of real life crime in to the fantasy world economy of …

A Brinker Capital poll of 236 financial advisers shows that their biggest worry about the economy and investment is not a terrorist attack or global unrest but a Democrat …

Here's some Christmas reading for everyone. Hope ya'll have had a happy, safe, and merry Christmas. McCain's New Deal Your Christmas present from John McCain. Big (Government) Economic Fix. …

I know Jayson Javitz has already explained the sub-prime mortgage market and its implications, but some readers complain he uses too many words. So, here is Merle Hazard with …

One of the Democratic Congress' consistent themes has been their desire to "roll back" tax cuts "for the wealthy." The simplest way for them to accomplish this goal is …

I watched the television news last Friday night with my husband. The video they ran from earlier that "Black Friday" morning showed what appeared to be thousands of people …

We might do well to remember the first Thanksgiving at the Plymouth Colony was only possible because they abandoned the failed socialist model for a community and adopted property …

James Pethokoukis at US News & World Report writes that Charlie Rangel's tax plan could actually send tax rates to even higher levels than they were under Carter. He …

Twenty years ago today, the New York Stock Exchange fell off a cliff, the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 22.9% of its value (508 points) in a single day. …

One hears calls to return to "the gold standard" for currency periodically, but usually they arise during periods of high inflation and economic instability, not in times of strong, …