By Bill Wilson — The left has been in a huff over the Republican National Convention Platform Committee’s decision to include a proposal calling for a gold commission to examine whether the value of the U.S. dollar should be fixed as a weight of gold. New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman called it a “very bad, […]

By Bill Wilson — “If you want to change big things, you pay attention to small things.” That was how former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani described his approach to crimefighting to CSPAN during his tenure in office from 1994 to 2001. Called the broken windows […]

By Bill Wilson — Today’s Congressional Budget Office report warning of a deep recession should Congress and the president not agree on a solution to the massive tax increases that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013, is true to the extent that the tax increases will kill private sector growth and exacerbate the recession […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama himself is the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare debate. He is wasting the American people’s time with fraudulent political claims, and abusing seniors through a campaign of fear. The $500 billion cut out of Medicare in Obamacare was based on […]

By Bill Wilson — A few recent sets of better-than-expected economic data released by government agencies in Aug. have seemingly made an additional round of quantitative easing — i.e. money-printing to purchase U.S. treasuries or mortgage-backed securities — by the Federal Reserve this year significantly less likely. While the veracity of the data has been […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally featured at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — Is America descending into a dependency state, where the majority uses its voting power to demand government services from taxpayers? New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with more than 107 […]

By Bill Wilson — On Aug. 20 Greece must make a bond payment of €3 billion that it owes to the European Central Bank, but it does not have the money. So, it will be getting its loan from none other than the European Central Bank (ECB), […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama has declared war on the private ownership and financing of American industry. Obama handed over much of Chrysler and GM to the autoworkers union while destroying bondholders’ stake in the companies. That is hardly a model for job growth in America, and […]

By Bill Wilson — A year ago, the $2.1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling was accepted — the largest in American history — because of the promise of offsetting spending cuts. A supercommittee was formed to find the cuts, but if it failed, $62 billion of […]

By Bill Wilson — Sep. 2012 looks to be an interesting month, with a confluence of factors that pose considerable downside risks not just for the U.S., but the global economy — any of which could send us, with anemic growth of just 1.5 percent for the […]