By Kevin Mooney — So now it’s called a “clean energy jobs” bill, replete with government inducements for contractors operating on pre-approved “efficiency” projects. Concerns over global warming and/or climate change are so 2009 and are no longer in vogue. A draft version of the […]

By Rebekah Rast – The Seven Dwarfs from the Disney movie wouldn’t be singing “Heigh-Ho” on the way to their job if they were mining in the U.S. In fact, they would probably be out of work altogether. An often overlooked but critical industry in […]

Speaking this past Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press , Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was of two minds — or shall we say two faces — about the American people’s level of debt and the causes of the financial crisis. First, he said “we’ve been living beyond our means as a country, Americans have […]

$4.242 trillion. That’s how much debt has been added since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took control of Congress and passed their first budget. That’s a 32 percent increase to the national debt in less than three years, which now stands at to roughly $13.249 […]

By Kevin Mooney — Will the extension of unemployment benefits further add to the deficit and undermine long term economic prospects? Or, will congressional action help cushion out of work Americans who could lose out on future payments? These questions are explored in  recent news reports appearing in […]

What does $39,400 in campaign donations to Charlie Crist’s campaign for Florida’s open Senate seat buy ? How about a $536 million, 72,800 acre land deal by the state of Florida to the U.S. Sugar Corporation, based on an appraisal value of the property taken at the height of the real estate bubble, and where the company would still […]

By Howard Rich – Contrary to Barack Obama’s rhetoric about protecting consumers, his new financial reform law represents a dangerous big government power grab that willfully ignores the true roots of the recent financial crisis. It is also the latest example of America’s “march to […]

CNBC reports that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan CEOs are fuming that they were not invited to the Obama financial services takeover bill signing ceremony. Citibank was there, Bank of America was there, as were other big banks – while Goldman and JP Morgan were on the […]