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 […]

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 […]