Riots and demonstrations seem to be the trend this fall. All over the world, governments are trying to cut back on expenditures, and those who live off the government teat are protesting violently. Yet had welfare and socialist entitlements not ...
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Consumers Lower Debt Levels Despite Government Stimulus
The government wants Americans to spend, spend, spend – but the average consumer is over it. Instead of doing what the government wants, millions of consumers are doing what’s best for their own lives: they’re taking a hard look ...
Read More »Is the U.S. Waiting to Follow Argentina?
The future of America may be playing out just to the south of us. Down in Argentina, most of what we fear will one day happen in the U.S. – seized pensions, crazy stimulus schemes, currency controls, and high inflation ...
Read More »Food Stamps and Unemployment Checks Rather than Tax Cuts the Answer to our Economic Woes?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) believes the quickest and surest road to economic recovery is more in people’s pockets. More food stamps and unemployment check that is. When reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing asked Hoyer ...
Read More »The Importance Of Corn In The American Economy
Even though the United States does not depend on agriculture to drive the engine of its economic development to the same extent that it did in the past, the fertile fields of the American heartland are still the envy of ...
Read More »President Announces Higher Taxes and More Deficit Spending with New Budget
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama will unveil his latest budget proposal Monday during an appearance at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale. The budget request he is sending to Congress is long on election cycle promises with what may prove ...
Read More »The Federal Reserve’s Possessive Tyrannical Grip On Our Country
In Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, our founding fathers gave Congress the sole authority “To coin money [and] regulate the value thereof.” In addition, in Section 10 of Article 1, they also proclaimed that “No state ...
Read More »Generation Jobless: Victims or Spoiled Losers?
The generation formerly known as Generation Y or the Millennials is now known as Generation Jobless. They are often presented as victims of a society going down the drain, betrayed by false promises about higher education guaranteeing them a job. ...
Read More »The Death of an Economy
Every generation has to deal to some extent with the challenge of reminding the next generation of its roots. It has been so as long as man has walked this planet. Take for example, Moses after he had led the ...
Read More »Downgraded! S&P Fires A Warning Shot At The U.S. Economy
The American economy is in such a woeful state that even the most willfully optimistic organizations world-wide are having a hard time denying the truth. A classic case in point is the rating agencies. They maintained that junk mortgage securities ...
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