Impact of Gas Price Increases

In many of the Southern States, with a significant population of service-industry and agricultural sector workers earning wages at around the $8.75 – $10 per hour mark, the impact of ...

WaPo Admitting Keynesian Stimulus Failed?

Does unprecedented deficit-spending such as on highways stimulate the economy? For the last few years, some have argued it could. Some have argued it might. Some have argued it would ...

Eight Reasons Gas Will Hit $5 This Year

The price of gas is a widely covered news item these days. Oil prices have moved up from $75 a barrel in October of last year to more than $100 ...

The Chinese Economy at the Crossroads

The World Bank’s latest report sounds a warning on China’s future economic growth, reiterating critical recommendations concerning the Chinese economy by The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. The report ...

Prices Rise Above $5 for a Gallon of Gas

Its not even summer yet and gasoline prices have risen above $5 for a gallon of premium gas at a Shell station in Los Angeles, California. Wholesale gasoline traded 13 ...

Charts Obama Doesn’t Want You to See

While the Obama administration and the mainstream media attempt to paint Americans enjoying a current economic recovery – the facts tell a very different story.  After some 5 TRILLION dollars in ...

Israel Asks Moody’s for Credit Rating Raise; Israel’s Financial Growth Surging

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz met with representatives of Moody’s Investors Service over the weekend and asked them to raise Israel’s credit rating, the financial newspaper Calcalist reported on Sunday. The ...

Gas prices are highest ever for this time of year

NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline prices have never been higher this time of the year. At $3.53 a gallon, prices are already up 25 cents since Jan. 1. And experts ...

88 million out of work and not looking for a job

Number of the day 88 million That’s how many working-age Americans don’t have a job and aren’t trying to find one anymore. The increase in people dropping out of the ...

Why Greece’s Fate Is So Important

We need to follow Greece because their default and withdrawal from the eurozone would set off major consequences to the European Monetary Union, and thus the EU, that are unforeseeable. ...