by Terrance Heath | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
"America has spoken." It's a phrase we've heard from the right after every election — special election, run-off or midterm — following the 2008 election in which voters sent Barack Obama to the White House and Democratic majorities to both houses...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
As the clock ticks down on tonite's expiration of extended unemployment benefits for the 9.6% of Americans who are officially unemployed, the coming end of school lunch and other child nutrition programs, and the possibility of doing anything whatsoever to help create...
by Zach Carter | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog
A rather nauseating statement from a Government Accountability Office report on foreclosures: Because they generally focus on the areas with greatest risk to the institutions they supervise, federal banking regulators had not generally examined servicers’ foreclosure...
by Zach Carter | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday, The New York Times ran an editorial opposing a new Federal Reserve proposal to eliminate predatory lending penalties. The rule under consideration is the same obscure regulation I blogged about a couple of weeks back, and it's very encouraging to see major...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 30, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
It hasn't even been a year since the Heritage Foundation placed Ireland among the top ten countries on its Economic Freedom Index. I wasn't intending to write about Ireland at the time, but any time the Heritage Foundation holds up any country as an economic example...
by Alan Jenkins | Nov 29, 2010 | Blog
As a frequent traveler, I can understand the outrage over new TSA security procedures. A “choice” between an ultra-revealing body scan, a scandalously intrusive pat-down, or not traveling by air, ever, is no choice at all. And for those of us who travel...
