Senator Elizabeth Warren has never seen a private financial institution she didn't want to seize control of, and her latest...]]>
Maya MacGuineas has been predicting budgetary and Social Security doom for ages. Of course she has. What does she have to lose?
If she's right after being wrong for all...]]>
Jack Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy and a candidate for my new Congressional district, NY-12, has made a...]]>
Roger Cohen hates and detests Javier Milei, and all that he stands for. The New York Timesman acknowledges that the...]]>
September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall...]]>
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and...]]>
Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign...]]>
I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who...]]>
While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged...]]>
By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and...]]>
It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures...]]>
Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the...]]>
The recent failures of MF Global and Peregrine Financial, and the reported manipulation of the Libor benchmark for interest rates, could not have come at a...]]>
In the span of two weeks we have seen a success of capitalism and a growing failure of state capitalism. On Aug. 1 came news that computers at Knight Capital went nuts, ...]]>
The graph below, based on data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, shows manufacturing employment in the United States as a fraction of all employment. As you...]]>
Mitt Romney accuses U.S. President Barack Obama of robbing Medicare of more than $700 billion. Obama claims the Republican presidential candidate would end Medicare as we know it....]]>
New business formation in the US is on the rise.
]]>Inflation is hot no matter how you slice it
]]>What began as an equity market phenomenon has become a capital markets-wide transformation.
]]>The Treasury market has already decided that tighter monetary policy is necessary.
]]>For lots of reasons rates will stay higher for longer.
]]>How useful have monetary aggregates been in signaling the stance of monetary policy in real time?
]]>Based on a Manhattan Institute analysis of the HHS numbers, Obamacare will increase underlying insurance rates for younger men by an average of 97 to 99 percent, and...]]>
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We hear all the time about the â??golden ageâ? of the 1950s and 1960s when Americaâ??s middle-class supposedly prospered like never before or since. But...]]>
Trader Joe's recently announced it would drop its employee-sponsored health care for part-time employees and ask them instead to find healthcare on new...]]>
This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will begin releasing its fifth assessment report. Like earlier reports, it will undoubtedly lead to more...]]>
If entitlement reform doesn't happen, then payroll tax increases may end up as a part of the solution. Here are several charts which illustrate...]]>
Are we correct to be worrying about an ageing population?
]]>To demonstrate how free market capitalism and "the miracle of the marketplace" generate increased prosperity over time for average (and especially low-income)...]]>
The CBO's long-term budget outlook released this week made a lot of news because it appeared to paint a new and surprisingly bleak budget picture. But in...]]>
Senator Mike Lee is proposing a richer child tax credit to help offset the cost of raising the next generation.
]]>The vibrant U.S. capital markets are the envy of the world. U.S. stock exchanges alone hit
In Chile, a major study shows the nation's private retirement accounts provide workers pensions worth 87% of their salaries, 73% of that from profits on...]]>
The city's pension liabilities are nearly 700 percent the size of revenues, far exceeding troubled Detroit's ratio.
]]>Vladimir Putin tries to keep former Soviet republics in Moscow's economic orbit.
]]>Taxpayers fund the stadiums, antitrust law doesn't apply to broadcast deals, the league enjoys nonprofit status, and Commissioner Roger Goodell makes...]]>
In most states insurance premiums will increase, the author argues.
]]>I believe that a real escape from the box labeled poverty requires several fundamentals and they all involve entrepreneurial thinking.
]]>It may seem cruel to question whether a person should get help rebuilding a home or a business after a flood or fire, so few people have asked such...]]>
The Great American Energy Boom is having a major ripple effect on the shipbuilding industry, which thanks to a 1920s maritime law, is busier than it has...]]>
Here are three reasons why selecting a new Fed chairman has generated such interest. None are good news for the economy.
]]>Business and labor are going to war over the nonprofit worker centers that union officials increasingly see as the future of their movement. The organizing...]]>
Sacreblu! The French are angry because the competiveness of French soccer teams will suffer thanks to the country's high taxes.
]]>Charities run by business execs strive to measure accurately their impact on society.
]]>New report reveals 3 mega trends in entrepreneurship that are reshaping the U.S. economy
]]>American imports to India have nearly quintupled in a decade, helped by brands like Harley-Davidson setting up shop.
MUMBAI, India — As President...]]>
BOSTON — The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, went further on Friday in outlining the risks the central bank was prepared to take by pumping more money into the...]]>
Nicolle Bradbury bought her home for $75,000 and stopped paying the mortgage two years ago.
DENMARK, Me. — The house that set off the national furor...]]>
One billion dollars? Six billion? Ten billion? More?
A foreclosed home in Miami. The halt in foreclosures may lead to billions in costs for...]]>
The SpaceX IPO collides with declining risk appetite.
]]>Bonds are a good but not perfect diversifier for stocks.
]]>Don't buy Chinese solar companies.
]]>Inflationary growth?
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