By Bill Wilson — Today’s oral arguments show the Court may be accepting the premise that the individual mandate will be struck down. What remains is the rest of law, and the justices appear to be pretty evenly split on that matter. This may indicate that a […]

By Bill Wilson — The “new” normal is actually not so new. The practice of printing money or inflating a currency to “pay” for a national debt has been around for at least as long as the practice of governments borrowing funds to pay for their unsustainable […]

By Bill Wilson — This is one of the most important weeks in the national debate over Obamacare. The oral arguments at the Supreme Court over these three days will give valuable insight into what many of the justices’ thinking on the important issues surrounding the law […]

By Bill Wilson — If nothing changes about our current spending trajectory and Barack Obama gets everything he what he wants out of Congress this year in his budget, the national debt will increase $10 trillion over the next decade — to $25.9 trillion by 2022. What’s alarming about this number is that it could be even higher. […]

By Bill Wilson — The latest installment of the Obama theater of the absurd plays out today in Cushing, Oklahoma, where Obama, who personally stopped the building of the pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to Texas, is now attempting to take credit for the private company, TransCanada, decision […]

By Bill Wilson — In an era when the EPA seems to believe the water in one’s tub is a ‘navigable water’ subject to Clean Water Act restrictions and onerous fines, it is good to know that the agency’s compliance order dictates are still subject to judicial review. The agency in this case was actually […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama has added more debt in a single term than any president in American history — indeed, any leader in world history. By the end of this calendar year, the Obama Administration, through its policies, will have added $4.925 trillion to the national […]

By Bill Wilson — Today, on March 20, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be testifying the House Financial Services committee on the state of the international financial system. This is an opportune moment for members to ask tough questions about U.S. taxpayers’ role in propping troubled […]

By Bill Wilson — It has been nearly two years since Obamacare was signed into law, and the costs keep climbing. Through 2022, taxpayers are on the hook for gross costs of $1.75 trillion , a 10-year figure that will only continue to rise as we near the law’s full implementation years. It has already resulted in more than 2,000 pages of new regulations — more […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on March 16, 2012. By Bill Wilson — Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a whopping $36.7 billion bailout of the banks that are owed money by the government of Greece. Shockingly, U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for […]