The latest episode of Uncommon Knowledge features economist Gary Becker. A professor at the University of Chicago for more than 30 years, Gary Becker is a founder of the Chicago school of economics. A winner of the John Bates Clark Medal and of the Nobel […]

By Kevin Mooney — Precious little progress has been made from the alarmist perspective since the United Nations climate change conference held last December in Copenhagen, Denmark, a blogger for the New York Times concedes . Looking ahead to the next conference, which opens at the end of November in Cancun, Mexico there […]

By Kevin Mooney — Polls show that New Jersey voters ardently support Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to cancel the $8.7 billion commuter rail tunnel to New York City. His actions have attracted criticism from state lawmakers and transportation officials who favor the project. However, a […]

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was granted the gift of prophecy by Apollo, but because she refused to be his consort, the god punished her by making it so that nobody would believe her predictions. Today, it appears that credit rating agencies have contracted a Cassandra […]

By Kevin Mooney — Attention incoming House and Senate Republicans. You are well positioned deep inside enemy territory to operate as constitutional insurgents. This means you are not part of the club and must remain separate and distinct from your party’s leadership in order to […]

China’s credit rating agency, Dagong, has once again downgraded the U.S. credit rating, this time down to A+ . The agency cited the Federal Reserve’s proposed $600 billion in purchases of U.S. treasuries, writing that the “move entirely encroaches on the interests of the creditors, indicating the decline of the U.S. government’s intention of debt repayment.” While the Fed […]

To hear some of the post-election spin regarding whether congressional Republicans should support increasing the national debt ceiling beyond $14.294 trillion, one might come to the conclusion that Republicans lost control of Congress in 1996 and not in 2006. Why the controversy? On November 3rd, […]

The latest from Dan Mitchell at the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation debunks White House pro-tax propaganda with a point-by-point rebuttal of a video narrated by Austan Goolsbee of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers:

By Rebekah Rast – The question remains for Congress, will the estate tax rise from the dead this coming January? Of course those with more than $1 million of assets are hoping not, but so should the rest of Americans. Why? Combining your home, retirement […]

By Kevin Mooney — Venture capitalists who remain committed to so-called alternative energy sources, could lose out over the long-term as a result of key technological breakthroughs that have caught the attention of magazine publisher Steve Forbes. The relatively cheap, reliable energy sources that are […]