By Bill Wilson — The private sector is not doing just fine. It is growing, just barely, in spite of Obama and his policies. Obama lauds the 4 million private sector jobs created in the establishment survey, but that is just happy talk.  That is not recovering […]

By Bill Wilson — How’s that “stimulus” working out for you, America? After more than $3.4 trillion fiscal and monetary tsunami from the government and Federal Reserve to prop up the economy, things were supposed to get better. Unemployment was never supposed to rise above 8 percent. […]

By Bill Wilson — After the disappointing June 1 unemployment report, which measured the jobless rate ticking up to 8.2 percent, many are asking for how much longer this depression will linger on. The answer, sadly, is for a long, long time. If measured apples to apples […]

This is what Obama has come to as unemployment rises to 8.2%:

UPDATE: Bill Wilson , President of Americans for Limited Government, had this to say about today’s unemployment report: Today’s Labor Department report on unemployment is devastating to Obama’s re-election chances.  His economy is dead in the water, and is not producing enough jobs to meet the needs […]

By Robert Romano — Right now, in Europe, stronger economic powers like Germany are deciding whether or not to fire up the presses at the European Central Bank to monetize the debts of their southern neighbors, importing their inflation in return. So far, Chancellor Angela Merkel has […]

By Bill Wilson — With the radical anti-bailout party Syriza leading polls in Greece and set to pull off a major upset in June 17 parliamentary elections, all speculation about the future of Europe is centered on whether or not Greece will leave the Eurozone as the […]

As originally published at Investor’s Business Daily . By Howard Rich — The euro zone isn’t the only economy reeling from “failed states.” The United States has several of its own — most notably California and Illinois. According to the CIA’s world factbook, California’s economy is the ninth largest in the world […]

By Bill Wilson — As the global financial crisis has spread from defaulting mortgages, to crashing mortgage-backed securities, to interbank contagion, to then a full-blown sovereign debt crisis, the  apologists for the Keynesian order have pretty much had their way  in responding to the economic fallout. They […]

By Rick Manning — Headlines blared over the weekend that Obama was winning his way by convincing the G-8 countries (U.S., Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Canada and Russia) to pursue a policy of “growth” rather than “austerity” in dealing with the crushing sovereign debt crisis […]