David Seaman– I recently had the opportunity to interview Donald Trump. I asked him about the economy, taxes, and his presidential ambitions. His responses are below. Is the economy seeing real recovery, in your view, or is this just a calm before the storm? There has been some recovery, and I hope it’s substantial, but […]
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was reported to have remarked that it was difficult to negotiate with one’s banker in reference to America’s relationship with China. A large chunk of China’s $3,000,000,000,000 of reserves is in dollars. America’s huge indebtedness provides China with an advantage in negotiations with the United States. Of course, the […]
Heritage Foundation Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics James Sherk writes: “The Obama Administration recently rolled back union financial transparency reforms. New regulations will exempt many union trust funds, such as strike funds and apprenticeship programs, from financial disclosure laws. These regulations also end financial reporting for many government unions.” According to recent polling, 66 […]
Trend forecaster, renowned for being accurate in the past, says…. The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions – all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing […]
(Reuters) – The mounting intensity of riots against higher university fees suggests that more and more ordinary people may be angry enough about austerity cuts to take to Britain’s streets in coming months. Thousands of students and others laid siege to London’s government district on Thursday, producing scenes of fighting, vandalism, horseback police charges and […]
If you had plans to take a holiday in Greece, my advice would be to switch those plans. The following video is much more violent than protests we have seen in the past. Athens is looking more like a war torn city, also this week Riots in Moscow Russia over immigration concerns. Riots on this […]
Most of the time being number one is good. But when it comes to having the highest tax rate in the world, it is much better for a country to be bringing up the rear. Currently Japan holds the inauspicious distinction of having the highest corporate income tax rate in the world (39.5 percent). The […]
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has just released an omnibus spending bill that will lock-in 2010 spending levels through the next fiscal year (ending September 30). The 1,924 page bill (pdf) contains unknown thousands of earmarks and will prevent the next Congress from making spending cuts until fiscal year 2012. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) released […]
Jamie Dupree recently reported for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the number of waivers granted by the Obama Administration for a certain provision in the new health care law has now reached 222. That’s double the amount of just three weeks ago. The waivers apply to a provision of Obamacare prohibiting annual limits on health plans. […]
When it comes to the housing market, two things get talked about regularly: the bottom and a recovery. However, these two terms mean very different things and don’t occur at the same time. Some have predicted that we have yet to see a housing bottom, while others say we may have hit the bottom and […]
