By Robert Romano A combination of globalization and automation is eroding labor force participation in the U.S., leading to an economy that is growing less, a labor force that is working less and a nation that is weakening internally as communities, families and individuals fail to adapt […]

March 29, 2016, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement calling on the Missouri legislature to pass Senate Bill 919 which advances economic liberty and free market principles in Missouri: “Senator Schmitt’s SB 919 empowers local retailers to increase their choices about refrigerated shelf […]

By Rick Manning Should the federal government encourage pension funds and other federally sanctioned retirement vehicles to engage in politically correct, socially conscious investing? The answer is yes according to a guidance document recently released by the U.S. Department of Labor which oversees all private employer pension […]

By Dustin Howard How should policymakers stop the bleeding of American jobs overseas? There’s one easy answer among many harder ones, and that is to stop making it so expensive to do business in the United States. Many things price American workers out of competition, […]

By Robert Romano In Japan, the 10-year treasury has been negative for several days now. On Feb. 29 the government sold its first auction at a negative rate, about $19.5 billion at a -0.024 percent rate, as reported by Bloomberg Business . At that rate the government will actually get paid about $4.7 million annually for the next ten years. […]

By Robert Romano “Suppose the economic outlook, which I don’t expect, but if it were to deteriorate in a significant way so that we thought we needed to provide more support to the economy then potentially anything, including negative interest rates, would be on the table.” That was Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen testifying to the House Financial Services Committee on Nov. 4, 2015 in […]

By Dustin Howard “We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.” Ronald Reagan powerfully stated this truism in 1964 […]

By Robert Romano Interest rates in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, the European Central Bank and now the Bank Japan have now plunged into negative territory, starting a new phase in the era of central banking that is very much uncharted. Time will tell if it leaves the global economy lost at sea. So far, banks are primarily being charged for keeping excess reserves […]

By Robert Romano Since 1997, at the height of the dotcom bubble, labor participation of 16 to 64 year olds — that is, those working or looking for work — has been declining almost every single year even as the population has increased. As a result, the […]

By Robert Romano The economy of Japan has not grown nominally in 20 years, according to data published by the Statistics Bureau of Japan . Nor has its population aged 15 to 64 —those in the prime working years of their lives — which has declined from 86.9 million in 1995 to 76.7 million today. Inflation has […]