By Rebekah Rast – Despite talk of America’s recovery, unemployment rates remain stagnant. Many components are at work creating this negative job environment. By not providing a secure tax future before adjourning for elections, Congress has left many businesses in limbo as to whether they […]

By Frank McCaffrey – Recent numbers from a Gallup poll differ greatly from the  unemployment situation report released from The Department of Labor. Why is that? Americans For Limited Government’s Rick Manning explains.

It was not so long ago, in 2008, that the commodities bubble was rocking the American economy. Oil marched upward almost every day, peaking at close to $150 a barrel . Right before that, gold had proceeded to over $1,000 an ounce . The American people were getting killed at the pump, with gasoline peaking at over $4 a gallon . There was much speculation at the time […]

The political establishment in Washington wants everyone to believe that there is no way to balance the budget without higher taxes. This new video debunks this myth, using Congressional Budget Office numbers to show that it is simple to get rid of red ink if […]

With sideways economic growth and persistently high unemployment, the Federal Reserve and other Keynesian economists have been obsessed with 1930’s-style “deflation.” Since the end of 2008, and in the wake of the financial crisis, the nation’s central bank has been engaged in so-called “quantitative easing” […]

Developing . Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following status on the worsening unemployment situation in the U.S., with the rate remaining at 9.6 percent and underemployment rising to 17.1 percent: “September marks the 17th straight month that unemployment has been at or above […]

By Howard Rich – As the infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) winds down this week, Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. are patting themselves on the back for a job well done. Not only are they claiming to have saved the nation from a […]

When the housing bubble popped in 2007 and financial mayhem ensued over the next two years, revenues to the federal and state governments dried up. This has produced untenable budget situations as states struggle to keep spending at pre-financial crisis levels. “Stimulus” has been justified […]

Are U.S. taxpayers helping China to modernize its armed forces via interest payments owed on the national debt? Every year, the U.S. pays out substantial interest on its now $13.6 trillion national debt. In 2010, those interest payments totaled $203 billion based on the latest numbers , some $15 billion more than the White House Office […]

Over the past week, we examined Maine , Vermont , Tennessee , Arkansas and Alaska to see the effects that the “Summer of Recovery” and “stimulus” had in those states. The data further proves that the “stimulus” has had little effects on job recovery. For instance, every state we have […]