Unintended Consequences on Executive Pay I: Golden Parachutes
Policies premised more on class-warfare than sound economics, are not going to get us out of this recession. They may actually delay recovery. A case… Read More
Policies premised more on class-warfare than sound economics, are not going to get us out of this recession. They may actually delay recovery. A case… Read More
It’s hard to get a feel on where the job-killing, protectionist “Buy American” provisions now stand after President Obama’s series of media interviews yesterday where he believed the measured… Read More
Will the Stimulus plan currently proposed by Congress actually create jobs? The short answer is no. The longer answer is the government cannot create jobs;… Read More
MOSCOW – The past week’s developments gave lots of food for conjecture and speculations among Kremlinologists both within Russia and beyond. The regime – President… Read More
With the protectionist stances coming from the Obama Administration via the Trillion Dollar Debt Plan’s “Buy American” provisions; you might forget the United States still has a series of pending… Read More
Last Thursday in a speech at The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) unveiled his “American Option” alternative to President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt… Read More
Yesterday, President Barack Obama was interviewed by several cable and network news outlets on matters ranging from Tom Daschle to the Trillion Dollar Spending Bill…. Read More
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a front-page story on soaring unemployment among China’s rural migrants. While official Chinese employment statistics are spotty, the gigantic figures… Read More
Does the financial crisis reveal a failure of American deregulation compared to better conceived European regulatory schemes? This thesis is shared by many, especially here… Read More
Media reports and anonymous US and South Korean officials suggest North Korea is preparing to test launch a long-range Taepo Dong-2 missile. A missile launch,… Read More
Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL) is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee. He took time this week to answer questions from U.S. Fulbright… Read More
There are two competing story lines developing on the Trillion Dollar Debt Plan. The first is that the bill passed by the House is basically… Read More
President Obama’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services stepped down today after it was discovered that he had failed to pay… Read More
Washington – Michigan Congressman Dave Camp raised doubts and highlighted confused realities of the Democrat Spending Bill at today’s Conservative Bloggers’ Briefing, held at the… Read More
In its latest issue, the Economist reports on the state of Britain’s armed forces. It answers the question posed in the title of the piece,… Read More
There has been a lot of talk in recent months on expanding the loan guarantee for energy projects broadly and nuclear projects specifically. The problem… Read More
Since we are inundated with bad news these days, we thought we would take a seventh inning stretch and share with you some good news. Today, Major… Read More
We don’t get to agree with George Packer everyday, so it pleases us to announce that we share his concerns about the message it sends… Read More
California is no longer the Golden State. Now a complete captive to public sector unions, spending has exploded by 40% over the past five years…. Read More
The American Option Introduced by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), the American Option Act proposes to aggressively and immediately lower taxes on businesses and individuals. Tax… Read More
This past week some in Congress complained because Bank of America, who has taken billion of taxpayer bailout funds, hosted a promotional event at the… Read More
The more we dig, the more audacious spending we find in the Obama Trillion Dollar Debt Plan. On page page 52 of the House bill… Read More
… which country would it be? Just so we can all wrap our heads around how big President Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Debt Plan is, this graphic… Read More
The more the American people learn about President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan, the more they don’t like it. According to a Gallup Poll… Read More
Today, the White House called Tom Daschle’s failure to pay more than $100,000 in back taxes a “serious mistake”, but reiterated their support for their… Read More
It is not everyday we get to agree with Paul Krugman, so it is our pleasure to link to his comments last week about President… Read More
Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, Willem Buiter, writes at the Financial Times: I used to be optimistic about the… Read More
This Friday the New York Times reported: Even as Congress looks for ways to expand President Obama’s $819 billion stimulus package, the rest of the… Read More
During the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, President Bill Clinton mastered the art of burying bad news: release everything late on Friday afternoon and… Read More
There have been various incidents over the past few years of anonymous flyers being sent to voters giving them the wrong date of an upcoming… Read More
