By Bill Wilson — Our annual trillion dollar deficits are “a significant national security concern because we’ve got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.” That was not Mitt Romney at Oct. 22’s foreign policy debate. […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — Selective outrage has long been the professional left’s stock-in-trade, but the over-the-top invective hurled at U.S. Court of Appeals judge Brett Kavanaugh this week has exposed something darker and more sinister than garden […]

By Bill Wilson — An excellent piece by syndicated columnist George Will on Oct. 12 urges Mitt Romney, should he defeat Barack Obama at the ballot on Nov. 6, to tap Dallas Federal Reserve Chairman Richard Fisher for Treasury Secretary. Why? Fisher is calling for an end to “too big to fail” financial institutions. Particularly, Fisher thinks it’s […]

By Bill Wilson — Speaking in Tokyo where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank held annual meetings on Oct. 14, 2012, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pleaded with emerging economy central banks to let their currencies appreciate. He even did it with a straight […]

By Bill Wilson — A bipartisan effort to repeal sequestration is underway, proving the difficulty that members of both parties in Congress have in restoring order to our nation’s fiscal house. We need more leaders like Jim Jordan, who are actually willing to cut the budget on a net basis, and are not afraid to buck the establishment in Washington, D.C. Jordan has been a consistent voice in favor of cutting spending now before it is too […]

By Bill Wilson — In a July campaign ad entitled “The Choice,” Barack Obama reiterated his plan to raise taxes, saying he wants to ask “the wealthy to pay a little more so we can pay down our debt in a balanced way.” There’s only one problem. If Obama […]

By Bill Wilson — Can you say Smoot-Hawley? Not content with Ben Bernanke’s currency war — which attempts to cheapen prices for U.S. exports overseas by devaluing the dollar — the Obama Administration has decided to go for the real thing, slapping new tariffs on Chinese solar […]

By Bill Wilson — In this recession, the economy has lost a net 3.4 million jobs from its 2008 peak that have not yet been recovered. Meanwhile the working age population has grown by more than 11.1 million since then — creating a 13.5 million and widening […]

By Bill Wilson — Woe unto the next president, whoever he may be. Managing director and co-founder of the world’s largest bond trader Pimco, Bill Gross, has released a shocking warning to the U.S. that promised entitlements to citizens may not be worth the paper they’re printed on. He called the U.S. “an addict whose habit extends beyond weed or cocaine and who frequently pleasures […]

By Bill Wilson — Since Barack Obama has taken office, the national debt has increased by $5.3 trillion, including $1.2 trillion in the past fiscal year alone , to today’s gargantuan $16 trillion total. Never before has the debt increased so much in a single term of office, and now the American people must decide who it is […]