05.15.2012

By Robert Romano — When Greece entered the Eurozone in 2001, it was with the promise that the common currency would benefit the Greek economy, facilitating trade and commerce, and crucially, lead to lower cost borrowing both privately and by the government. Now, more than ten years […]
05.14.2012

AMEN! From the Labor Relations Institute : The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the NLRB lacked a valid 3-member quorum to adopt its “ambush election” rulemaking in December 2011. You can read the decision here . Since Member Brian Hayes refused to participate in the actual vote on […]
05.14.2012

By Adam Bitely — 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes many promises in his 2012 platform. According to one of the prominent themes on his website, Mitt will “build a simpler, smaller, smarter government.” But a close examination of his platform shows that his statement […]
05.14.2012

By Rick Manning — The U.S. House of Representatives took aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) this past week by voting to prohibit the Obama-run labor board from using any funds to sue any state on the question of secret ballot elections. The House action […]
05.14.2012

By David Nace — For decades we have been told that unions help the middle class. We have heard it from unions, from politicians that receive union contributions and from a sympathetic media. However, when one examines the facts, this claim is completely false. How […]
05.11.2012

By Paul Driessen — Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net […]
05.11.2012

By Bill Wilson — By Barack Obama’s own estimate, borrowers who take part in his mortgage refinance program could “save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates”, as he suggested in his Feb. State of the Union Address . Later his Administration estimated that as many as 3 million borrowers would be eligible for that particular program , but with interest rates at record […]