Archive for Category: "Economy"

December 5, 2011 07:21

The Marcellus Shale Boom – our real energy future

Marcellus-generated job activity within these regions can only be described as a gold rush. Thousands of trucks, ranging from semi-tankers to white diesel crew-cab pickups, have flooded the streets and back roads of many towns.

December 5, 2011 06:04

Fiddling While Rome Burns

[D]emagoguery and cheap talk are winning out over substantive action. Both parties are equally guilty of playing this game when it suits their purposes, fiddling away while Rome burns.

December 5, 2011 03:30

6 Horsemen? Central Banks Dollar Liquidity Only Prolongs The Euro Debt Crisis

Until there’s a fundamental and structural change of how government is held accountable for running and managing a nation’s resources, there could be more crises similar to the one in the Euro Zone popping up to the point of one Scary Grandioso–No more spare bailout capacity.

December 4, 2011 19:41

Spending More has Never Worked!

“Big government liberalism is a religion, not a school of rational thought. A false understanding of the history of the Great Depression is the cornerstone of left-wing ideology…”

December 4, 2011 10:54

Fiddling While Rome Burns

[D]emagoguery and cheap talk are winning out over substantive action. Both parties are equally guilty of playing this game when it suits their purposes, fiddling away while Rome burns. By Ken Connor Democrats blame the recent Super Committee’s deficit reduction failure on Republican obstinacy and obstructionism. It was the GOP’s refusal to raise taxes on the super rich, the Dems maintain, that resulted in the committee’s inability to reach a compromise. Charles Krauthammer does an excellent job of debunking this […]

December 2, 2011 10:51

EATING THE RICH

If America is to remain great, a bastion of freedom and prosperity, it must remain capable of the unprecedented wealth creation that made it great in the first place. It must remain capable of defending itself (guns cost money). It must remain free. By Brad Lyles, M.D. Consider the Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tale, The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. This Fairy Tale describes what happens when an impatient farmer wants more Golden Eggs more rapidly and consequently splits open […]

December 2, 2011 08:20

Leftist Looney Unemployment Solutions: Both Weird and Scary

There are legal restrictions that make hiring and firing a litigator’s paradise. There are high payroll taxes that vastly increase the cost of new works. There are minimum wage laws, labor union privileges and “child” labor laws that cartelize the workplace to benefit the few at the expense of the many.

December 2, 2011 07:19

Obama floods Europe with US dollars to stave off collapse until after 2012

Inflation will destroy US savings and purchasing power but the Fed and Obama have decided that is an ok price to pay to bail out Europeans. Obama is desperate to keep the economy from tanking any further before the 2012 election.

December 2, 2011 06:57

Smoke and Mirrors

It is time to tell our hypnotized fellow citizens to take the blinders off. Wake up! The house is on fire and the firemen are pouring gasoline on the flames.

December 1, 2011 12:10

Sen. Coburn: Obama tax cut will “totally gut social security”

Dr. Coburn discussed the prospect of passing the Democrat’s plan to extend the payroll tax cut and the costs associated if this is carried out, as well as the effect Congress’ failure to put forward a deficit reduction plan will have on our immediate future.