08.31.2011
By Paul Driessen — Every American manufacturing company gets tax deductions that help it create jobs and strengthen our economy — whether it produces newspapers, furniture, cars or fuel. Eliminating those deductions would increase unemployment and further slow our nation’s desperately needed economic recovery. Yet […]
08.31.2011
Cartoon By William Warren
08.30.2011
By Bill Wilson — Writing for the New York Times recently , Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett called for taxes to be increased on the so-called “super-rich,” suggesting that he and his elite billionaire and millionaire friends are itching to pay more. Buffett wrote, “Most wouldn’t mind being told to pay […]
08.30.2011
By Rick Manning — Like many Americans, I refinanced my home in the past couple of months. In searching for a home mortgage lender, my first stop was my former mortgage company, Wells Fargo, as I was happy with their web payment system and did not want […]
08.30.2011
By Rebecca DiFede — Upon entering the Itunes App Store, a plethora of applications doing everything from finding the cheapest gas station to filing your tax return await you. And among these addiction-worthy apps there is one designed by the Department of Labor to help […]
08.29.2011
By Kevin Mooney — Do not sit back and wait for the federal government to reform itself. Instead, allow the states to take the lead in getting the federal debt under control; this is the central message of the National Debt Relief Amendment , which reads as follows: “An […]
08.29.2011
By Robert Romano — On Aug. 26, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his decision to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the interest rate at which the Fed and banks lend to one another — at near-zero levels. He said, “[I]n what the Committee judges to be the most likely scenarios for resource utilization and inflation in the medium term, the target for […]
08.26.2011
By Paul Driessen — Put these guys on Comedy Central. Put ‘em in an asylum … a mandatory restitution program … jail perhaps … or a witness protection program, if they turn state’s evidence on other perpetrators. But keep them away from our money — […]