Money & The Economy
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What Western powers should do in response to Russia’s aggression
The Russian aggression against Ukraine, initiated by President Vladimir Putin, has surprised many but not me, and should have…
Read More »Apple’s Stock drops on underperforming iPhone Sales
Apple announced earnings today and it wasn’t what analysts had expected to hear – the tech giant missed expectations and…
Read More »CNN spins Obama’s failures on the economy .. again
CNN.com’s Annalyn Kurtz starts out her article with a strong headline that plants the blame for a floundering economy squarely…
Read More »Latest Jobs Report ‘Very Bad’
Directly contradicting President Obama’s claim yesterday that the recovery is “very real”, the latest jobs numbers show an employment situation…
Read More »American Capitalism & The Illusion of Laissez Faire
To draw from an opening phrase, in the beginning, there was capitalism. More accurately, at the beginning of our Constitutional…
Read More »Rebuttal of William Hartung’s blatant lies about the threat environment
The leftist “BreakingDefense” website has recently (on Dec. 12th) published yet another utterly ridiculous leftist screed, this time by ignorant…
Read More »Rebuttal of anti-nuke hacks’ lies about US nuclear weapons spending
The leftist “National Defense Magazine”, which has often published utterly false propaganda screeds on defense issues, has recently published yet…
Read More »The Opportunistic Politics Rolls On
Just as the American people begin eying the torches and pitchforks, readying their maps of Washington, DC, the establishment politicos…
Read More »Quantitive Pain
Ben Bernanke out, Janet Yellen in. But, don’t worry, the same failed fiscal policy will continue chugging along. For those…
Read More »Federal Government: Embarrassing to the Point of Painful
As the so-called “government shutdown” drags on, one thing is hard not to admit: the Obama Administration is acting in…
Read More »To win, Republicans should focus on economics
As I have written a number of times here on CDN, the GOP is viewed very negatively by the majority…
Read More »The Flat Tax fantasy
In the wake of the recent IRS scandal, some well-intentioned but badly misguided people have begun touting the flat income…
Read More »Shock! IMF cuts global economic forecast.. for third time this year
Tuesday, the IMF updated it’s World Economic Outlook downgrading three-out-of-four of the world’s most powerful economies. While the Eurozone was…
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