U.S. Manufacturing Is Making Headway
The numbers posted at Investors Business Daily over the weekend by John Merline were impressive: U.S. manufacturing profits last year exceeded $600 billion, almost tripling since the bottom of...
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Big Banks Oppose Volcker Rule, Urge Delay in Implementing It
The deadline for comments on the proposed Volcker Rule was Monday night and hundreds, if not thousands, of letters arrived at the last minute to rail against the rule,...
Foreclosure Settlement Bails Out the Big Banks
The report from The New York Times on Wednesday about the foreclosure settlement reached between five big banks and 49 states’ attorneys general made it appear that justice was...
Courts and Dept of Justice Agree: Videotaping Police is OK
Ken Paulsen (left), president and CEO of the First Amendment Center, wrote in USA Today that “just as police officers use technology to watch citizens, including patrol car cameras,...
How Leviathan Works: FDA to Regulate Medical Apps
The press release issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which operates under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on July 19, 2011, signaled the...
Rising Oil Production in Alberta: More Evidence Disproving Hubbert’s Peak
The latest report from the Calgary (Alberta, Canada) Herald was nothing but good news: The steadily declining production of light oil from 2002 to late 2010 has reversed itself...
Regulatory Agencies Continue to Slow the Economy
In a recent editorial entitled “Regulation without Representation,” Investors Business Daily pointed out that a new federal rule or regulation is published every two hours, 24 hours a day, 365 days...
Ga. Court Rules Obama Eligible to Run; Appeal Slated
Following the hearing on January 26, and after reviewing briefs presented on behalf of plaintiffs alleging that Barack Obama is not a “natural born citizen” under the Constitution and...
Printing Money in Britain Doesn’t Work There Either
The long-awaited announcement of another bout of money printing in England on this Thursday will prove once again that experience doesn’t modify behavior on the other side of the...
Okla. Constitutional Amendment Pits Taxpayers Against Unions
When Oklahoma State Senator David Holt (left) discovered that Oklahoma was ranked the “most anti-taxpayer state in the southern United States” by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), he decided...
Friday’s Unemployment Numbers: Correcting the Corrections
The news released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday appeared to be all good: The unemployment rate was down by 0.2 percent to 8.3 percent, the...
Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country
When Hollywood film director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator) announced that he was moving to New Zealand, preppers, fiscal doomsayers, and alarmists had a field day in deciphering his...
ObamaCare Advisers Predict Death of Health Insurance Companies
Two advisers to the Obama administration during the creation of the law known as ObamaCare exposed in the New York Times on Wednesday one of the predictable consequences of...
Housing: Prices and Ownership Still Correcting
Just when CoreLogic, the California-based mortgage data provider, began to wax optimistic about the housing market, the Census Bureau and the S&P/Case-Shiller index doused their enthusiasm with some cold facts and daunting...
CBO Report: U.S. Deficits “Unsupportable”
In the summary of its “Budget and Economic Outlook” published on Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted the supportability of deficit spending even under its “alternative” analysis. Noted...
European Fiscal Pact: Int’l. Financial Dictatorship
Monday’s meeting of the European Union in Brussels resulted in agreement of 25 of the 27 member states to inflict upon themselves and their hapless and increasingly powerless citizenry...
Tennessee Lawmaker Writes a Law, Then Breaks It
When Curry Todd was arrested last October for driving under the influence, he unknowingly set off a string of consequences, some predictable, that continue to resonate today. ...
Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St. Valentine’s Day
Elliot Fineman (left), CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) announced last Monday that its members will boycott Starbucks starting on St. Valentine’s Day to protest the...
Greeks About to Learn the True Cost of Obtaining Bailouts
Greece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds flowing to his country. ...
Obama Ignores Challenge to His Presidential Eligibility in Georgia
After two hours of hearing from plaintiffs challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for the office of President in 2012, Judge Michael Malihi for the Office of State Administrative...
