By Bill Wilson — Everyone headed to the polls on Nov. 6 is free to pick their reasons for what makes them cast a ballot one way or another. But there is one overriding factor that may ultimately give the Obama Administration a lot of heartache when […]

By Bill Wilson — There can be little wonder as to why bankrupt states like Illinois would love to see the Federal Reserve fire up its printing presses and start buying state and municipal bond debt. At $85 billion — and counting — Illinois has one of […]

By Bill Wilson — 10 billion. That will be the world’s population in 2050 by United Nations’ projections. Can the global economy sustain that many people? Will there be rationing of vital resources? Can free markets survive with less to go around? What of liberty? These questions […]

By Bill Wilson — On Oct. 26, the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ advance estimate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 3rd quarter (Q3) of 2012 showed 2 percent growth — not really a good number. Just to get to the 3 percent annual growth rate […]

By Bill Wilson — Writing for the New York Times on Oct. 23 , Stanford law professors Joseph Grundfest, Mark Lemley and George Triantis call for another round of quantitative easing (QE) — i.e. money-printing — by the Federal Reserve. This time however, instead of buying mortgage-backed securities or U.S. treasuries, the Stanford trio wants Fed […]

By Bill Wilson — Respected military magazine Small Wars Journal recently published an article co-written by a retired Army Colonel named Kevin Benson.  The article, entitled “ Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future ,” was ostensibly written as a training manual for military commanders and general staff. Benson is a seminar leader at the University […]

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 […]