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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Rebecca DiFede — In a shameless stunt to secure reelection, the Obama Administration is considering granting refinance loans to borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, allowing them to qualify for today’s lower interest rates. This is thought to […]

By Bill Wilson — A bilateral agreement between Finland and Greece has promised to give the Nordic nation €500 million collateral for its portion of the bailout of Greece’s creditors. Considering the risks, the call for collateral is hardly surprising — Athens’ credit rating is a mere […]

By Howard Rich – In addition to preserving the inalienability of our individual liberties, limited government ideology has always revolved around the belief that the invisible hand of the free market creates more prosperity for more people than command-and-control economic wealth redistribution. Actually this isn’t […]

By Kevin Mooney — “Wealthy liberals” are spreading false and misleading information about new drilling techniques that have opened up natural gas resources in Pennsylvania, according to a report from the Commonwealth Foundation . A geologic formation known as the Marcellus Shale, which cuts across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West […]

By Rebecca DiFede – The economy is slowly circling the drain, and jobs are about has hard to find as a dropped earring in a ball pit, however according to an article in the New York Times , we shouldn’t worry because our president may have come up with a solution. This trial balloon […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally featured at The Daily Caller . By Howard Rich – Having failed to meaningfully restrain government growth during the recent debt ceiling debate, America’s fiscal leaders are now preparing to push taxpayers even further below the waves. Meanwhile the U.S. economy […]