Great Job Growth
The economy has created eight hundred seventy-one thousand jobs in the first half of 2007. The last two months are preliminary numbers. Look for them to be revised upwards. Of…...
Economy
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Unions Cause Unemployment
David Leonhart writing in the New York Times has this to say about declining union enrollment: Since 1980, as union membership has dropped sharply, the share of economic output going…...
Friday, June 22, 2007
One Third Of Americans Not Making Enough Money?
Speaking of liberals running down the economy to further their political agenda, the predictably left-wing Pew Center has a new study out indicating that one third of Americans aren’t making…...
People Around Their World Putting Their Money On America’s Economy
Despite doom-and-gloom warnings from liberals about our economic future. Kind of makes you think that the Democrats may decry our “horrible” economy more to pursue their political agenda than to…...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Biodiesel Get’s a $1 Gallon Subsidy!
Call me surprised: While biodiesel producers are presently receiving a $1 a gallon federal tax subsidy, they think that even more aid would help them compete more effectively. In testimony…...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The Senate Is Doing Exactly the Wrong Thing In The Energy Bill
What a nightmare. First the Senate debates an Illegal Alien Amnesty bill. Now they are debating a wrong-headed energy bill, before they go back and debate the Amnesty bill again. …...
Friday, June 15, 2007
The Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act Discourages Selling Gas When It’s Needed The Most
An interesting analysis of so-called “price gouging” from an email to economist Greg Mankiw sent by a White House aide giving background on why the President will likely be vetoing…...
Monday, June 11, 2007
US States Renamed After Countries With Similar GDP’s
This is cool (click for a larger view)… ...not to mention an absolute testament to our economic strength. Economic strength that was built through capitalism and a society free enough…...
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Guiliani Cut Taxes 23 Times?
I was just listening to the Sean Hannity show while he had Rudy Guiliani as a guest. They were saying that Rudy cut taxes 23 times while he was mayor…...
Friday, May 25, 2007
If It’s Bad For American Somoa, The Minimum Wage is Bad for America
Looks like Nancy Pants carved out a special deal for her friends at Del Monte: CNMI workers who now make $3.05 an hour may see their paycheck increase in two…...
Behold The Wonder That Is The Laffer Curve
Via the Wall Street Journal. Explanation of the Laffer Curve here for the uninitiated. ...
Congress Misses the Mark On “Price Gouging Legislation
Tom Dennis of the Grand Forks Herald has a great column up covering the recent action by the United States Congress to outlaw “price gouging” on gasoline sales. When experts…...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Same Old Promises From the Democrats On Energy Independence
Nancy Pants is Promising energy independence in 10 years: SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE [Nancy Pelosi]: ... I don’t like to comment on what other people say – but we’re very…...
John Edwards Call Your Office…
....because it turns out that the facts about America’s economic climate are devastating for your campaign platform. It’s been a rough week for John Edwards, and now comes more bad…...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
You Can’t Blame the US Sugar Program For This
A few years ago it was big news that the Lifesavers candy plant was moved from the US to Canada. The reason given by the makers of Lifesavers, Kraft foods,…...
Monday, May 14, 2007
Democrats Want To Tell You What Kind Of Car You Can Drive
Only they’re doing it under the guise of strong-arming the auto industry into “saving the environment.” WASHINGTON - Democratic-controlled Washington stepped in to help save Chrysler nearly 30 years ago…...
Friday, May 11, 2007
Tax Cuts Soar Revenue
The left must hate producers so much when they oppose tax cuts. A relatively small tax cut that was enacted under George W. Bush is growing tax receipts much much…...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
A Currency Lesson
An interesting point here: American manufacturing executives Tuesday urged the US government to get tougher with China on exchange rates, claiming the modest rise in the yuan has done little…...
Thursday, May 03, 2007
It’s UnAmerican Not To Earn As Much As You Can
Archie Goodwin once said something like that. I don’t think Rex Stout was serious when he wrote that but I think Archie’s right. Consider two people. One a rich successful…...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Now You Can Add “Get That Wart Checked Out” To Your List Of Things To Do At Wal-Mart
Because the mega-chain is adding medical clinics to their list of offered services. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday that it will contract with local hospitals…...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
The Problem With, And Slippery Slope Of, Tax Subsidized Economic Development
The Grand Forks Herald’s Tu-Uyen Tran has an excellent post about Aurora Medical Park’s campaign to get some economic development money out of the city of Grand Forks. The Aurora…...
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Irish Miricle
I’m one-eight Irish you know! The key to Ireland’s success has been its excellent tax climate for business. In 1980, Ireland established a corporate tax rate for manufacturing of just…...
Paulson on the Conrad Budget
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on Kent Conrad’s budget: (via Larry Kudlow) “The budget resolution reported by the Senate Budget Committee today assumes a significant tax increase, which is the last…...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Net Worth Of US Households Skyrockets, So Much For The Second Great Depression
Weird… WASHINGTON - The net worth of U.S. households climbed to a record high in the final quarter of last year, boosted mostly by gains on stocks, the Federal Reserve…...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Freedom Journal Iraq Episode 597
The Iraq Army takes the lead. Past episodes: Freedom Journal Iraq 596 Freedom Journal Iraq 595 Freedom Journal Iraq 594 Freedom Journal Iraq 593 Freedom Journal Iraq 592 Freedom Journal…...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
An Example Of Why Price Controls Don’t Work
Bart Hinkle has an interesting post today about an article in the USA Today concerning “congestion pricing” and what it has done to traffic jams on high-traffic roads. The average…...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Cranes Seen In Iraq
And not the kind of cranes that have wings either, according to one of our troops stationed in Baghdad: As I told the audience this morning on News Talk 1000…...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Who Owns the Debt?
I found this graph over on the Skeptical Optimist. It describes who owns the US Public Debt: The moonbats are claiming that our national debt is owned by China. The…...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Why We Shouldn’t Believe Media Hype
Remember all that flaming rhetoric about “off shoring” during the 2004 elections? Well, it turns out that the dire predictions made by John Kerry, among others, were totally unfounded. Most…...
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Socrates Discusses the Minimum Wage with a Congressman
He’s under So-Crates in the history books. Socrates: So you want to raise the minimum wage. Why? Congressman: Because as Sen. Ted Kennedy pointed out, minimum wage workers haven’t had…...
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