By Rebekah Rast — If you ever ran a lemonade stand as a child you were aware of the basic market principles of supply and demand. If your lemonade was sold at too high a price, you likely didn’t get much business, or if you […]

By Robert Romano –The situation in Europe is constantly evolving, with a new proposal seemingly on the table every day.  Let’s take a look at which proposals are still under consideration, and which ones have been torpedoed. Off the table: 1)      ECB direct monetization (Draghi just said […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s Labor Department report on the unemployment rate no longer passes the smell test as an accurate indicator of economic activity.  The fact that the rate dropped almost half a percentage point to 8.6 in spite of the fact that the economy created […]

By Bill Wilson — Markets were awash with irrational exuberance on Nov. 30 upon an announcement by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to lower interest rates for “temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements”.  Particularly, this will lower the cost of dollars in Europe, which is thought will help with any potential liquidity shortfalls there. Whether that will work or not […]

By Bill Wilson — Earlier Monday, Nov. 28, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney assured the American people that the U.S. was nowhere near bailing out European banks that had bet poorly on the sovereign debts of Greece, Portugal, Italy, and other bankrupt nations. “We do not […]

By Kevin Mooney — Manufacturing jobs are coming back to Louisiana thanks to innovations in the energy industry that pressure groups in the northeast are attempting to block. The substantial deposits of natural gas that are now available could create about 35,000 jobs in the state as key industries mobilize […]

By Howard Rich — Like a lengthening shadow creeping across the Atlantic, the economic despair we’re witnessing in Europe is an ominous harbinger of things to come here in the United States.  The only question is whether American taxpayers will be forced into even more […]

By Rick Manning — Sometimes you really don’t want to be right. Unfortunately, that is the situation which I find myself in as the child of the debt deal, the Supercommittee, is due to submit its recommendations to cut a meager $1.2 trillion off of the national […]

By Robert Romano — On Nov. 16, the national debt surpassed $15 trillion for the first time in U.S. history to $15.026 trillion .  And at its current trajectory, it will pass 100 percent of the $15.198 trillion Gross Domestic Product by the end of the year, if not early in 2012. That’s problematic, because […]

Americans for Limited Government (ALG), the parent organization of this website, endorsed the Jobs through Growth Act as “a good start toward tackling some of the root causes of our nation’s economic stagnation.” This legislation was proposed by the House Republican Study Committee (RSC). The bill focuses on lower taxes, less […]