By Kevin Mooney – Just keep voting until you get the desired results and we will change the rules along the way to help advance policy changes that could not pass through Congress. This is the message the National Mediation Board (NMB) has transmitted on […]

By Bill Wilson – Right now, the world is lost in a sea of black swans — any of which, if they unfurl their wings and fly, could potentially derail the global economic recovery and lead to massive government defaults on sovereign debt. Bloomberg News’ William Pesek […]

By Robert Romano – Once again, Congress has passed a short-term continuing resolution, this time with $6 billion of cuts over three weeks, which would bring the total of cuts passed this year to $10 billion. The reason for the stop-gap measure is because Harry Reid’s Senate […]

By Bill Wilson – On Mar. 12, the European Union (EU) reached an agreement to create a permanent €440 billion bailout fund to support troubled sovereigns like Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (PIGS). Despite a lot of talk of making the “senior bondholders” pay part of the […]

By William Warren – Today’s cartoon is about how the GOP and Dems in Congress need to do something about the deficit or else we’ll all get crushed…

By William Warren – This cartoon is about the Wisconsin Labor issue and how the Democrats keep using the old line about how the GOP’s policies are “Crushing the Children.”  Well, we all know who is REALLY crushing the children…

By Howard Rich – The Social Security debate is no different than the debate over any other government program – there are just a lot more zeroes involved. Of course the more zeroes, the less willing Washington politicians usually are to confront the problem – […]

By Kevin Mooney — Just before he left office in January, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, a Republican, signed off on legislation that outlawed automatic payroll deductions for union dues. Although the on-going protests in Madison, Wisconsin and Trenton, N.J. have largely overshadowed Riley’s actions, he […]

The biggest monthly deficit of all time was reported this month: The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning. That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight […]

By Robert Romano – Are we under economic attack? The author of a controversial 2009 Pentagon-contracted report, Kevin D. Freeman, seems to think so. Penned for the Department’s Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWSP), “ Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses ” outlines a “potential direct economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and U.S. […]