Greece on the Verge of Default — Again
Greece is flirting once again with default and withdrawal from the eurozone — and this time, Greece's leaders may be serious. ...
Economics
Using Phony Job and Export Claims to Push TPP Fast Track
The Peterson Institute has discredited itself repeatedly with promised benefits from NAFTA and other...
Moody’s Downgrades Chicago Again
Reality and politics in the Windy City rarely collide in the same sentence, but...
San Francisco Bookstore Closing Due to Minimum Wage Hike
A small San Francisco bookstore is going out of business because it can't afford...
New Illinois Governor Facing Torrent of Red Ink
Bruce Rauner, Illinois’ new Republican governor, was inaugurated on Monday and is facing a...
ISIS Expresses More Monetary Sanity Than Federal Reserve
The self-styled “Islamic State,” the terrorist group often referred to as ISIS or ISIL...
Feds 2014 Jackson Hole Confab
VIDEO - Expect the European Central Bank to take a page from the Federal...
Robotic Pizza Delivery, Banking, and Now Over-the-road Trucking
Robots will soon be driving over-the-road trucks, bringing down costs and reducing crashes. ...
Despite Stock Market Gains, Public Pension Plans Fall Further Behind
By ignoring basic investment rules, public pension managers have virtually guaranteed that these pension...
Latest Fed Confab: More Bank Bailouts, Pension Raids, Taxes, Inflation
The Federal Reserve’s annual Wyoming symposium has sent ominous signals that the world’s top...
Minnesota Café Adds “Minimum Wage” Fee to Customers’ Bills
After Minnesota raised its minimum wage, a café owner added a $.35 "minimum wage"...
Will Fed Pull Back After 2nd Quarter Economic Growth?
The announcement July 30 that the economy grew at a four-percent annual rate for...
Detroit’s New M-1 Rail Line: Triumph of Hope Over Experience
This is a setup from the start. The rail line will never make money,...
Rothschild Crony Capitalist Summit Plots Against Free Markets
Under the guise of re-defining and improving what they inaccurately called “capitalism,” top insiders...
Congressional Budget Office Confirms Obama’s Attack on the Middle Class
The CBO reveals an unrepentant president determined to impoverish further the once-vital American middle...
Fed Chair Yellen Says Economy Needs “Extraordinary Commitment”
Speaking at the conference for community organizers and developers hosted by the Chicago Federal...
Survey: Small Business Will Lay Off Workers if Minimum Wage Hiked
An employment service learned that unemployment would increase if the minimum wage is hiked...
Federal Shipping Law Exacerbates Northeasterners’ Winter Woes
The federal Jones Act, a 1920 shipping law, is forcing the Northeast to import...
Report Decries Gender Pay Gap, Ignores It in White House
NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver overlooked the very gender wage discrimination extant in...
Highland Park, Michigan, on the Brink of Bankruptcy
Highland Park, Detroit's "own Detroit", has run out of time and money. Bankruptcy of...
