Category: Economics

Now more than half of all Americans receive "significant income" from the US government. If this trend continues, soon we won't have enough producers to support all the dependents. …

Fred Thompson, a possible GOP presidential candidate, writes in the Opinion Journal about the positive effects that low tax rates have had on the government's tax revenues: It's that …

College Graduate Jobs and Pay Outlooks Stronger This Year More than a million college seniors are preparing to enter the real world this spring - and their prospects are …

Today I saw a headline in the Boston Globe that I had to respond to: India high-tech industry out of workers How can a country of a billion inhabitants …

Unemployment Rates March 1997 - 4.5 - Whites March 2007 - 3.8 - Whites March 1997 - 10.7 - Blacks March 2007 - 8.3 - Blacks March 1997 - …

On Thursday the Bureau of Economic Analysis finalized its estimate of GDP growth for the final quarter of 2006. Here are the inflation-adjusted (annualized) growth rates posted by the …

This just in: raising the minimum wage COSTS JOBS!!!!! Gee, who coulda seen THAT one coming? Oh, yeah, I did. And so did a lot of others. Back when …

My husband called me from the road today to say that he bought gas for $1.97 on I-40 in central NC. We saw it for $1.99 in an area …

Today's Boston Globe featured something truly astonishing. They published an op/ed piece by a professor from Wellesley College that actually made sense. Professor Karl Case teaches economics there, so …

Bush's tax cuts are reducing the deficit quite nicely. Deficit hawks need to keep this in mind when the Democrats call for tax increases using the deficit as their …