Here’s a “shocker”: U.S. companies that operate overseas are keeping profits there and investing rather than repatriating the profits — because of punitive taxation. According to Frank Aquila at Bloomberg News , there may be as much as $1 trillion of U.S. profits overseas that are simply not being repatriated. Why? Because […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a continuing series examining the battleground races in 2010 midterm elections. It’s no coincidence that the battleground states in the 2010 midterm elections are also states that have been severely hit by the Great Recession. If […]

By Howard Rich – No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Over the course of three years (and two administrations), Bernanke has aggressively and successfully lobbied for trillions of dollars in […]

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 […]