By Rick Manning – 15.1 million Americans unemployed. The entire state of Ohio has a population under 12 million people. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is at around 12.5 million people. Illinois is around 13 million. In fact, every state except California, Florida, New York and Texas, has […]

By Robert Romano We can’t say we weren’t warned. On October 1st, 2008, Senator Jim DeMint hypothesized that one of the principal causes of the federal government’s plan to purchase toxic mortgage-backed securities as part of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was to bail […]

By Kevin Mooney — Without the leadership of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the leading skeptic on the science of man-made global warming in the U.S. Senate, anti-energy legislation may well have become a reality. He is the indispensable in the fight against “cap and trade” […]

DEVELOPING. On Thursday, the Department of Labor’s Public Affairs chief Carl Fillichio stated that CNBC covering the release of the latest unemployment situation report on-site at DOL was, “a terrific reflection of the great work we do at the department, and a unique opportunity to show it off!” Is 9.8% unemployment a reflection of […]

The latest video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity debunks Keynesian economics. Politicians and journalists who fixate on consumer spending are putting the cart before the horse. Consumer spending generally is a consequence of growth, not the cause of growth. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video helps explain […]

By Robert Romano – The European Union (EU) is on the brink of failure, and the lesson should be telling here across the pond. The problems seem fairly straightforward. The debts of these EU member states are growing faster than their economies, and they are growing larger […]

By Adam Bitely – On November 27th, 2010, American Express along with several non-profits , encouraged people to participate in a national Small Business Saturday , similar to shopping holidays like “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday” where Americans would change their normal shopping patterns and intentionally devote their resources towards small businesses identified by […]

By Howard Rich – As the European economy grapples with yet another bailout of a bankrupt sovereign state, a storyline is emerging that seeks to frame this latest instance of government interventionism along deliberately disingenuous lines. According to this misleading narrative, Ireland’s abysmal fiscal condition […]

By William Warren – I drew this cartoon for Thanksgiving in 2008. I hoped that this would still not be appropriate today, but alas, it is. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

By Bill Wilson – On November 3rd, the Federal Reserve lowered its outlook for the U.S. economy in 2011, projecting lower growth and higher unemployment than it had in its June estimates, based on the now-released minutes of that meeting . In June, growth had been predicted to be from 3.5 to 4.2 percent, but […]