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 […]

By Frank McCaffrey – President Barack Obama continues to say he’s focusing on creating jobs yet the numbers remain bad. Is there more to it than meets the eye? Does he get political gain out of high unemployment? What can be done about certain groups […]

The latest unemployment data shows that the unemployment rate was unchanged from September to October. The unemployment rate remains at 9.6%–the longest sustained unemployment above 9.4% since the Great Depression. As ALG President Bill Wilson put it: “October marks the 18th straight month that unemployment has been at or above […]

By Kevin Mooney — 2010 voters have more faith and confidence in business owners to recharge the economy than they do in the leadership of organized labor, according to a survey from Public Opinion Strategies. Moreover, the poll points to a growing concern on the […]

The sovereign debt bomb is ticking — and time is running out before it goes off. On November 3rd, while the American people were soaking in the results of the Republicans’ historic rout of congressional Democrats, the Federal Reserve had its long-awaited meeting to discuss […]

By Howard Rich – Mere days after winning the presidency on the strength of his proposed “middle class tax cuts,” U.S. President Barack Obama switched gears and began outlining his vision for a massive “economic stimulus” – one that he promised would create three million […]

For voters who have become increasingly disillusioned with their government in an era of record debt levels, never-ending bailouts and government takeovers, high unemployment, and a weak economy, the election of November 2nd, 2010 is seen by many as the last recourse to changing the […]