By Howard Rich – With deteriorating economic conditions putting a damper on his poll numbers and jeopardizing his 2012 re-election prospects, Barack Obama now portrays himself as a free-market leader for a change. Yet while he poses for pictures with CEOs and unveils a private-sector […]

By Bill Wilson – Everyone tends to pull a punch now and again, even here at Americans for Limited Government.  Things go unsaid, but sometimes they must be said.  Today is one of those days. The beauty of a recent piece by Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff, “End Game,” is that it pulls no punches.  In it, Schiff […]

By Kevin Mooney — One way to push back against the power and influence of public employee unions is to open up collective bargaining agreements to taxpayer scrutiny. The success Republican governors have had in Wisconsin, New Jersey and Ohio in cementing financial reform over […]

In a strange response in an interview conducted by NBC , Obama blamed modern technology, even specifically blaming ATM’s at banks and ticketing kiosks at airports, as causes of the high rate of unemployment in America. Obama stated, “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot […]

By Robert Romano – Is the Federal Reserve a so-called “bad bank?” According to Euro Pacific Capital Chief Economist Michael Pento , the Fed has just $52.5 billion of capital to back its $2.7 trillion balance sheet, an equity cushion of just 2 percent. Over $917 billion of that balance sheet is in mortgage-backed securities (MBS), […]

By Adam Bitely – Just one year ago, the Obama administration was touting the rollout of the “Summer of Recovery”, a summer long program in 2010 that would end with jobs created from coast to coast. On a specially designed website for the “Summer of […]

By Bill Wilson – It’s the second time within a month, but I agree with the New York Times’ Paul Krugman.  This time, he writes that “bankers and wealthy individuals with lots of bonds in their portfolios” can count on the government to “protect the interests of creditors, no matter the cost”. […]

By Kevin Mooney — Thanks to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the Regional Green House Gas Initiative (RGGI) that imposes Kyoto-Treaty type restrictions on energy use  in the Northeast may now be in the early stages of unraveling. This is a huge victory for […]

By Bill Wilson – As the Obama Administration continues to be weighed down by bad economic news, including a double dip recession in housing and rising foreclosures, it is flailing about to improve the housing market it promised to turn around. This is not all that surprising […]

By Adam Bitely – Since the economy began to tumble in 2008, panic has been the number one driver of quick, knee-jerk legislative “fixes” in Washington, D.C.  From multiple iterations of “stimulus”, TARP, auto-bailouts, and a myriad of new regulations that will supposedly prevent future […]