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…...
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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…...
Friday, February 02, 2007
Investor’s Business Daily: Hey Media Morons, Investments And Real Estate Count Too
Investor’s Business Daily gives a smackdown to all the journalists responsible for those “SAVINGS AT AN ALL TIME LOW!!” and “WE’RE NEARING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AGAIN!!” I posted about yesterday:…...
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Are We Approaching The Great Depression?
That’s the gloomy impression given by the AP in this article: WASHINGTON - People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate…...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Union Enrollment Still Declining
Music to my ears... New data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that labor union ranks are shrinking in number, falling by another 326,000 workers in 2006.…...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Bernanke “Calm Before the Storm”
The Washington Post: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress yesterday of a “fiscal crisis” if it doesn’t curb the projected growth of federal spending on retirement and health-care…...
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Barney Frank Flipping Out Over Smart-Ass Republicans’ Request To Exempt Samoa From Legislation
In my previous post about Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats creating a special exemption in the minimum wage law for a company from Pelosi’s home district (in which Pelosi’s husband…...
Friday, January 12, 2007
The Declining Deficit
The deficit drops by a third for the first 3 months of this budget: WASHINGTON (AP)—The federal deficit has improved significantly in the first three months of the new budget…...
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Exports Were Sizzling
What with the election last year you would have thought this would have been big news? Someone wake up Byron Dorgan and let him know. The Kiplinger Letter: (It’s a…...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Bush Approves 33.6% Increase In Taxes On Oil Companies
Some people, mostly those who love conspiracies about evil oil corporations, see this as a good thing but I just don’t understand why. WASHINGTON — Less than a month after…...
Monday, January 08, 2007
An End to Free Trade Talks on Agriculture?
Captains Quarters: Global trade talks that are intended to improve the lives of billions of poor people stand on the brink of failure, Peter Mandelson, the European Trade Commissioner, has…...
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Wages and Corporate Tax Rates
The Wall Street Journal: Over the past year, the real average wage for non-supervisory employees has risen 2.8%. That equates to about a $1,200 increase in purchasing power for the…...
Saturday, January 06, 2007
What’s Wrong with our Carmakers?
The GM Empire is striking back. General Motors boss Rick Wagoner insists the US company will not give up its position as the world’s top automaker without a fight. “I…...
Friday, January 05, 2007
Time For a Subsidy
We know that Byron Dorgan’s been all over the fact that oil companies have been unusually profitable when oil prices were high. Now is he going to be calling for…...
For the Record the Economy was Great Before the Democrats Took Over
Is this the last positive year-end economic wrap up we’ll see for a while? Employers stepped up hiring last month, boosting payrolls by a healthy 167,000 and keeping the unemployment…...
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Will: No Minimum Wage
My 9/11 buddy, George Will is right: -- A FEDERAL minimum wage is an idea whose time came in 1938, when public confidence in markets was at a nadir and…...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Billionaire Chinese
Interesting: Company executives in China were the big winners of last year’s soaring stock market, with the top 50 executives worth nearly 40 billion yuan (5.1 billion dollars), according to…...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Milton Friedman “Created Equal”
Here’s episode #5. This episode is on equality. There will be a test on this material. ...
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