[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[…]
Author: Edmund Contoski
Unemployment: the Numbers behind the Numbers
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[…]
Inflation Worse than Government Admits
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[…]
Why Solar Power is Permanently Inefficient
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[…]
A Lesson in Wealth Creation
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[…]
Decline of America’s Schools Isn’t Just Academic
(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[…]
Thanksgiving: Obama Fails to Learn the Pilgrims’ Lesson
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[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Obama Against Jobs, Economy, Middle Class, Part 2
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[…]
Obama Against Jobs, Economy, Middle Class, Part 1
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[…]
A Texas Lesson in Economic Growth
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[…]
Economically illiterate Obama, re: Corporate Jets
[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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