Home Sales In Southern California Down, as Buyers Are Priced Out of Market
Home sales in Southern California fell in June, dropping 11.8 percent since June 2017. “People can’t afford homes anymore,” said a real estate...
Economics
New Gilded Age Is Here — Mostly in Blue States
The United States has entered a new Gilded Age. Funny thing is, most of...
Supreme Court Rules That States Can Force Online Retailers to Charge Sales Tax
In a 5-4 decision handed down on June 21, the Supreme Court cleared the...
Increasing Rents Driving Middle Class Out of Silicon Valley
Rents in Silicon Valley are becoming too high for many people to afford. ...
Financial Analysts Predicting End of the Bull Market
Boom and bust is more a result of government-caused inflation than any action taken...
Gold Depository Bypassing Federal Reserve Opens in Texas
The Texas Bullion Depository, a gold-backed bank that would allow depositors to store precious...
Seattle Repeals Job-killing Head Tax One Month After Passing It
Just one month after Seattle voted unanimously to pass a head tax on businesses...
High-income Earners Leaving High-tax States
High-income earners in high-tax states such as New York, Illinois, and California are migrating...
U.S. Asks OPEC to Boost Production to Help Hold Down Oil Prices
The United States has asked OPEC producers to increase oil production by about one...
Nearly Half of San Francisco Bay Area Residents Plan to Leave
Forty-six percent of Bay Area residents surveyed said they are likely to move out...
U.S. Fiscal Outlook “Not Good,” Says Goldman Sachs’ Chief Economist
Financial expert John Mauldin believes that actions the Federal Reserve will likely take to...
Economists Predict 800,000 People Will Leave New York and California Because of High Taxes
Economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore are predicting that the new tax bill and...
Boost to World Bank and China is “Departure” From Trump’s Vision
Despite President Donald Trump's “America First” campaign promises to rein in globalism in favor...
Trump Walks Back Pro-TPP Remarks, Touts Bilateral Deals
After suggesting last week that the U.S. government would seek to rejoin the sovereignty-shredding...
New Weekly Unemployment Claims Remain Below 300,000, Longest Streak Since 1967
Thursday's report that unemployment remains very low should be no surprise to those who...
CBO Update: Trillion-dollar Deficits to Arrive Two Years Sooner
The latest report from the Congressional Budget Office about the state of the economy...
Sound Money Bill in Congress Would Define Dollar as Unit of Gold
Legislation introduced in Congress recently would define the U.S. dollar as a fixed amount...
Census Bureau Forecasts Older Americans Will Outnumber Children by 2030
A Census Bureau report noted that by 2030, as Baby Boomers age, the size...
Are Tariffs Good for America?
Trump's announcement of protective tariffs for steel and aluminum has resurrected the old arguments...
The Hidden Cost of Electric Cars: Government Subsidies and Manipulated Markets
In the past few years of heavy marketing and favorable media coverage, one would...
