12.20.2013

Stop the presses! Fed taper won’t stop its $75 billion a month money-printing

By Robert Romano Stop the presses! Instead of adding $1.02 trillion of treasuries and mortgage bonds to its balance sheet a year, the Federal Reserve has announced starting in January it will just be adding a “mere” $900 billion. For that, headline writers the world over are […]

12.12.2013

How the progressive tax fosters crony capitalism and class warfare

By Tom Toth A nation of the people, by the people, for the people. The United States — a constitutional republic designed over 200 years ago under the then-radical idea that every man and woman is equal under the law, regardless of color, creed, lineage, or wealth […]

12.11.2013

7 percent unemployment… happy days are here again, right?

By Nathan Mehrens Even with winter storms sweeping across the nation the economic news from Washington D.C. is coming up roses, with the U.S. economy creating more than 200,000 new jobs in November for the second straight month and the national unemployment rate dropping to […]

12.10.2013

Obama’s class warfare claptrap

By Robert Romano On Dec. 4, President Barack Obama in a major speech on economic policy spoke of “a dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized middle-class America’s basic bargain.” He thinks it is income inequality that is holding back regular Americans. […]

12.09.2013

Unemployment rate is meaningless

Government Spending Will Help

By Rick Manning The headlines read that the unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point since Obama took office. This is a case where a headline can be 100 percent true and completely wrong in its implications. If the unemployment rate drop from 7.3 percent down […]

12.09.2013

The tyranny of branding

By Marta H. Mossburg Has anyone noticed that your brand has replaced yourself? First impressions have always been important, but became critical to survival when Americans left the farm for the city and needed to get a job from someone they were not related to […]

12.06.2013

Why fast food workers should really protest

By David Bozeman Fast food workers, prodded on by a top down effort by union organizers, yesterday protested in many locations demanding a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour and, of course, union representation, among other demands.  Kendall Fells, representing the SEIU-backed Fast […]

12.04.2013

Destroying entry level jobs and teen opportunity

By Rick Manning Fast food restaurants will get the joy of having labor unions stage protests demanding an increase in their worker’s wages and more than doubling the overall federal minimum wage this week. Everyone wants to make more money, so what could go wrong? Perhaps it […]

12.03.2013

No way out of Fed’s QE trap

By Robert Romano It took a little while, but the selloff of U.S. treasuries abroad has ceased for now in August and September — a record $127.4 billion was sold between March and July. It had marked the largest drop in foreign holdings of treasuries on record, […]

12.02.2013

Black Friday: Lessons from Walmart

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By Rick Manning Retailers know that the Friday after Thanksgiving has been the traditional bellwether for whether the year is going to be profitable. So do labor unions and their organizers, which explains why groups like the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union among others […]

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