By Bill Wilson — “Listen. It was never a rule to begin with.” That was how House Speaker John Boehner responded to a question about violating the so-called “Hastert rule” in order to pass Democrat-supported legislation on guns and the budget. The rule itself, named after former House Speaker Dennis Hastert states bills will only be brought before […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investors.com . By Bill Wilson — Government interventionists insist the free market, if left unchecked, endangers individuals and our planet. According to their collectivist worldview, profits trump safety — while “corporate greed” overshadows the greater good and the right of […]

By Robert Romano — Breitbart.com rocked the boat on April 4 when it reported that new Republican National Committee (RNC) chief of staff Mike Shields had attacked what he called the “professional right” and other groups at a meeting of the Ripon Society. Shields’ statements came in […]

By Bill Wilson — 663,000 Americans dropped out of the workforce last month. 206,000 fewer Americans were employed. 290,000 more Americans were unemployed. Yet, the headline will be that the unemployment rate dropped in March to 7.6 percent. Never has the lie of the improving Obama economy […]

By Bill Wilson — “We do not have an immediate debt crisis.” That was House Speaker John Boehner’s take on the rapidly growing $16.75 trillion national debt, speaking on ABC’s This Week . He went on to suggest that “we all know that we have one looming. And we have one looming […]

Update: The Cyprus parliament has rejected the savings tax unanimously . For now. The rejection came in spite of modifications to the proposal that would have exempted the first €20,000  ($25,894) deposited from the tax. By Bill Wilson — The Politeuro strikes again. A recent €10 billion ($13 billion) European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package to prop up Cyprus’ banking system that lost billions on Greek debt comes with a very curious string […]

By Bill Wilson — Barack Obama wants to double the U.S. quota subscription in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to $130 billion from its current $65 billion level. This is the foreign aid organization that has been busy bailing out Greece, Portugal, and Ireland with $86.6 billion. U.S. taxpayers have been responsible for about 20 percent of those bailouts, or approximately […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily . By Bill Wilson — Of all the federal agencies engaging in “bold, persistent experimentation” with our economy in recent years, U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been among the boldest, most persistent and most […]

By Bill Wilson — We are all Krugmanistas now. On the political left and right, there is a perception, succinctly articulated by the New York Times’ Paul Krugman that “[W]e have our own currency” and the government “literally can’t run out of money. After all, it can print the stuff.” In short, because the Federal Reserve is […]

By Bill Wilson — Barack Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to replace Lisa Jackson as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And unless Senate Republicans mount a filibuster, she will undoubtedly be confirmed. McCarthy is really not an exceptional nominee. Not very different from prior EPA […]