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Reaching 400 ppm of CO2 Is No Milestone

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • May 13, 2013

There is abundant evidence that global warming alarmism is false, but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune won’t print it. Heartland will, with data and charts to prove it.

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Central Banks Buy Gold, Print Money

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • March 18, 2013

Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have[...]

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Congress Cooks the Books

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • February 25, 2013

The title of this post is the title of an article in the February 22 Star-Tribune by Paul Gutterman, director of the Masters of Business Taxation Program at the University[...]

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Thanksgiving: Obama Fails to Learn the Pilgrims’ Lesson

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • November 22, 2012

President Obama has failed to learn the simple basic lesson that the Pilgrims, who established the tradition of Thanksgiving Day in 1623 (not 1621, as often claimed), learned the hard[...]

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Housing Crisis Not Over—Another Bailout?

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • November 19, 2012

[First posted at American Liberty.] A new crisis is looming in the housing/mortgage industry when the worst seems to have passed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Those two GSEs[...]

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Unemployment: the Numbers behind the Numbers

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • October 19, 2012

Jobs growth has not even kept pace with growth in the working-age population, must less restored jobs lost in the recession. The working-age population increased by 206,000 in September while[...]

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Inflation Worse than Government Admits

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • March 13, 2012

Americans for a long time have felt what they are being told about inflation doesn’t fit with their own experiences in paying monthly bills.  Over the years the government has[...]

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Why Solar Power is Permanently Inefficient

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • January 26, 2012

The above was produced more than 30 years ago by Petr Beckmann, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.  The intervening decades have not altered the validity[...]

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A Lesson in Wealth Creation

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • December 14, 2011

The following is by guest columnist Tim Nerenz.  It is a great rebuttal to democratic Senator Harry Reid’s assertion two days ago on the floor of the U.S. Senate that[...]

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Decline of America’s Schools Isn’t Just Academic

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • December 9, 2011

(Cross-posted from American Liberty.) The decline of American public education, documented by a plethora of objective tests for decades, is so well known it requires no documentation here.  What I[...]

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Thanksgiving: Obama Fails to Learn the Pilgrims’ Lesson

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • November 23, 2011

President Obama has failed to learn the simple basic lesson that the Pilgrims, who established the tradition of Thanksgiving Day in 1623 (not 1621, as often claimed), learned the hard[...]

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Obama Against Jobs, Economy, Middle Class, Part 2

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • November 1, 2011

NOTE: Part One of this series of posts can be found here. The top one percent of federal income taxpayers paid more than the bottom 95 percent, according to the[...]

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Obama Against Jobs, Economy, Middle Class, Part 1

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • September 26, 2011

Of course, Obama says he is for those things, but his actions work against all of them. Ben Franklin said, “Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at[...]

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A Texas Lesson in Economic Growth

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • September 2, 2011

This lesson is drawn from a recent speech by Richard W. Fisher, president and CEO of the Dallas Fed. We begin with this chart of nonagricultural employment growth by Federal Reserve[...]

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Economically illiterate Obama, re: Corporate Jets

  • by Edmund Contoski
  • July 12, 2011

[Cross-posted at my blog, American Liberty] Obama has called for taxing corporate jet owners to help offset government spending and balance the federal budget. It is just the latest example[...]

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