09.23.2011

By Bill Wilson — In the face of a deteriorating economy, the liberal-left has been scurrying to assign blame for the impending disaster while offering “solutions” that would further entrench their stranglehold over America. It has become a mantra, repeated over and over from all quarters of […]
09.22.2011

By Bill Wilson — On Sept. 21, the Federal Reserve announced its latest plan to “[t]o support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with the dual mandate”. Dubbed Operation Twist after the famous 1960’s dance, this time the Fed plans to sell $400 billion of short-term U.S. treasuries […]
09.19.2011

By Rebekah Rast — The number of people applying for unemployment benefits has reached its highest level in the past three months. The economy is not growing like it needs to for Americans for find work, which is why in the past three years Americans have collected $319 billion in jobless benefits . A tanked economy explains well […]
09.16.2011

By Kevin Mooney — Property owners and small business owners are under assault from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which is operating in collusion with Wall Street hedge fund operatives, free market activists have warned. Here is how the take down works. When the […]
09.13.2011

This discouraging news from the Washington Post : The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans in poverty has risen to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 17-year high. About 46.2 million people, or nearly 1 in 6, were in poverty. That’s up from 43.6 million, or […]
09.13.2011

By Robert Romano — So addicted to credit are Europe’s most troubled governments that without credit expansion, their economies can no longer grow. This is seen in Greece, where no longer able to spend more than it takes in, in the second quarter, its economy contracted by 7.3 percent . This addiction is […]
09.07.2011

By Bill Wilson — Markets have begun pricing in the likelihood of a European collapse, where key members of the eurozone withdraw from the monetary union, banking institutions collapse, and widespread defaults reshape the landscape across the pond. This possibility, considered remote at best in recent months, […]
09.02.2011

Obama’s economy continues to fail to produce the private sector jobs to even meet the needs of new entrants in the economy, let alone those who are currently unemployed. What is stunning is that the economy created zero jobs in August. It is almost criminal […]
08.29.2011

By Kevin Mooney — Do not sit back and wait for the federal government to reform itself. Instead, allow the states to take the lead in getting the federal debt under control; this is the central message of the National Debt Relief Amendment , which reads as follows: “An […]
08.29.2011

By Robert Romano — On Aug. 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his decision to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the interest rate at which the Fed and banks lend to one another — at near-zero levels. He said, “[I]n what the Committee judges to be the most likely scenarios for resource utilization and inflation in the medium term, the target for […]