Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged the Senate to roll back a $100 billion expansion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that was enacted in 2009. “It is simply outrageous that the world’s largest debtor, the United States, is bailing out creditors in Europe […]

By Kevin Mooney — Without additional transparency and tighter enforcement of proxy-voting requirements, publicly-held companies could be pressured into accommodating political agendas that are detached from the economic interests of retirement funds, according to a U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General audit released in March. […]

U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), David Vitter (R-LA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have offered an amendment to the Economic Development Revitalization Act end the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) ability to use $108 billion taxpayer dollars to bailout foreign countries. It’s about time […]

By Bill Wilson – What is the price of a bailout? Nominally, it’s how much a central bank or legislature has to print or spend, respectively, to save a failed institution from its own stupidity. For example, the Treasury has dedicated more than $150 billion to bailing […]

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 […]