Money & The Economy
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HuffPuff Propagandizes a FOX Reality
I go through the headlines and news stories in over one-hundred publications daily. I do this so that I can…
Read More »China, Russia and South Korea Make Moves Away from Dollar
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, S. Africa) is the acronym signifying the next generation of economic power houses. Increasingly, these,…
Read More »Even Democrats realize Cap and Trade = economic disaster
For years, economists have been saying that cap-and-trade would be an economy killer. Now, a group of California Democrats has come…
Read More »Obama Illegally Shutting Down Businesses with Operation Choke Point
In a free-market capitalistic system, the economy grows as companies compete freely for consumer dollars by producing superior products and…
Read More »Q1 GDP Down 2.9%: Admin says – meh
Today we learned that the Gross Domestic Product of the United States decreased by 2.9% in the first three months…
Read More »The Economy: National Review and de Rugy promote suicidal “free trade” policies, attack Ex-Im
Last month, the National Review’s pseudoconservative editors (who, BTW, supported John McCain for reelection in 2010) and NRO blogger Veronique…
Read More »Federal Debt and A Bad Law (FATCA) May Collapse the Dollar
All of us have experienced the merciless effects of the “law of unintended consequences” at one time or another. We…
Read More »Conservatism Contrasted with Obama’s Policy Failures
Conservatives have, from the beginning of his candidacy for the presidency seven years ago, been critical of our sitting president.…
Read More »What today’s economic news tells us about the ‘recovery’
Listening to the President, his administration, some in Congress and several news reports, many would say the economy is recovering…
Read More »How Britain Achieved – And Lost – Economic Preeminence – And Lessons For The US
In the mid-19th century, and in the first few decades afterwards, Britain was an unmatched military, economic, colonial, and thus…
Read More »Whose party platform is it?
Today is May 1st, also called the “International Workers’ Day”, a communist feast par excellence, celebrated by communists and socialists,…
Read More »Stop Maligning the Export-Import Bank. America Needs It.
Recently, pseudoconservative Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and a few of his Congressional chums, along with the neoconservative Heritage Foundation, have…
Read More »Rand Paul is the one distorting Reagan’s foreign policy
Ronald Reagan was such a successful President – especially in the foreign policy realm – that virtually all Republicans…
Read More »The Good and Bad News About The FY2015 Defense Budget
This week, the DOD formally submitted to Congress its proposal of the FY2015 defense budget. The base defense budget would…
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