By Kevin Mooney — Google is learning how to play the Washington D.C. game in a big way. This means it will likely find a way to sidestep regulatory schemes that work to the disadvantage of taxpayers and consumers. Federal records show that Google donated […]

UPDATE: The Senate passed a cloture vote which paves the way for final passage of S. 1619, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act, for later this week . By Adam Bitely — Some Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have found something they can agree on. And that is rattling sabers to start a trade war with China. S. 1619, the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act , is aimed to hit the Senate floor today. The […]

By Rebekah Rast — During the Great Depression it was not uncommon to see tent cities going up around the nation. People could no longer afford their homes and didn’t have jobs so they banded together and lived in tents, often moving around in an […]

By Bill Wilson — Once again, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has inserted himself into the European sovereign debt crisis — revealing that there are genuine fears that the chaos will spread over here. Last time, it occurred in May when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposed that unsecured bondholders of Irish debt take losses on their holdings, a plan vetoed by Geithner , as revealed by University College Dublin’s Morgan Kelly. Now, as […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]