By Robert Romano (Correction: A previous version of this article cited an Obama speech on Jan. 7 being on CEO pay. It was actually on the proposed unemployment benefits extension .) So long as there is money, there will be an economy composed of relatively free individuals making individual decisions about how to spend their money. […]

By Rick Manning A version of this article appeared at TheHill.com. I thought it was a joke. Stories started circulating over the past few months about various left-wing local and state legislators urging a ban on e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes? Why would anyone want to ban these tar-free nicotine fixes that give real cigarette smokers an effective […]

By Robert Romano According the Case Shiller Home Price Index , home values are up 13.6 percent year over year as of October. Similarly, the Freddie Mac Home Price Index shows a 10.5 percent gain year over year as of September. In 2013 alone, that index’s average monthly value is 12.27 percent above 2012, higher than even the bubble year […]

By Robert Romano In January, Janet Yellen will be easily confirmed to be the next head of the Federal Reserve. One question for the New Year that is certain to come up once every six weeks will be the Fed’s Open Market Committee, and specifically, whether there […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]