Consumers are paying an easy $35 dollars per barrel over what they would otherwise dole out for a barrel of oil, if fund managers didn`t use the benchmark futures contracts as their own personal ATMs.
Archive for Category: "Economy"
July 20, 2012 10:16
Boehner: Obama “checked out” of government
Speaker John Boehner noted that Republicans are “the only ones in town who’ve offered a plan to address both the threat to our security that’s posed by the defense sequester, and the threat to our economy posed by the coming tax hike.” President Obama, on the other hand, “hasn’t lifted a finger to work with the Congress on jobs or to resolve these big issues.” Boehner noted: the president “doesn’t even have time to meet with his own jobs council. He’s just out there campaigning every day and looking for somebody else to blame.”
July 20, 2012 08:41
20 Signs That All Point To The Exact Same Thing – Can You Guess What That Is?
Our economic system is fundamentally broken, but most Americans don’t realize it yet because times are still relatively good. However, the next great economic crisis is going to wake a whole lot of Americans up.
July 20, 2012 05:34
Guaranteed Failure: D.O.E big green loans fund big Obama donors
Yet these loan programs remain popular with Congress and the executive branch. That’s because in general most of the financial cost of these guaranteed loans will not surface for many years…. can approve billions of dollars to benefit special interests with little or no immediate impact to federal appropriations ..
July 19, 2012 10:16
Let’s Talk About Outsourcing
[Obama] spent billions of U.S. taxpayer’s money overseas to create outsourced jobs.
July 19, 2012 09:23
More bad jobs numbers from anti-jobs president’s policies
New unemployment claims rise almost 10%. Three years of Obama’s focus on jobs has proven disastrous. He SAYS he cares about jobs but his policies and agencies continue to destroy jobs at an alarming pace. And now he wants to further harm the economy by a tax increase which he even said would hurt the economy. This is economic suicide.
July 19, 2012 04:52
Rich Pay More Than “fair share”
40% of Americans received more in refundable tax credits than they paid in income taxes.
July 19, 2012 04:40
The Union Difference: A Primer On What Unions Do To The Economy
The rest of society pays for public employee benefits through higher sales, income, and property taxes.
July 18, 2012 06:31
Food Stamps: Let’s Provide a Safety Net, Not a Mattress
Forced “charity” that takes from the successful and merely redirects it to the unsuccessful provides the wrong kind of incentives. Our tax and welfare systems should reward thrift, entrepreneurship, and industry, not indolence, timidity, and profligacy.
July 17, 2012 05:12
Romney rips Obama’s political payoffs vs layoffs – and Obama records
Romney questions Obama giving billions to politically connected campaign donors while Americans suffer in the Obumeconomy.
