Time for a Holiday That Brings Full Employment
Friday’s unemployment figures of 7%, while perhaps slightly more cheerful than expected, still mean that roughly 11 million people are out of work and that the U.S. economic recovery remains stubbornly...
View ArticlePay Off $1 Trillion in Student Loans by Closing Overseas Military Bases
Financial bailouts seem to have become a favorite policy of the U.S. government. Banks, insurance companies, the auto industry, the solar industry — all have been major beneficiaries of Uncle Sam’s...
View ArticleReducing Tuition Will Make College Affordable
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is one half of the legislative duo who recently introduced a bill designed to ease the pain of repaying college costs by bringing in Wall Street. Yet, this is another typical...
View ArticleFlip Side of the Minimum-Wage Debate
Something that Washington does not want you to know about and hopes that nobody else will discuss during the minimum-wage debate is take-home pay after taxes for low-wage earners. Washington claims...
View ArticleThe Middle Class Comeback
The middle class is getting crushed. But there is hope. The most common argument about the middle class destruction is the declining or stagnant income, which is true. However, the main culprits are...
View ArticleFlip Side of the Minimum-Wage Debate
September 8, 2014 – Something that Washington does not want you to know about and hopes that nobody else will discuss during the minimum-wage debate is take-home pay after taxes for low-wage earners....
View ArticleDebt & Deficit
We are witnessing a grand, inter-generational Ponzi scheme that’s destined to drown our children and grandchildren in red ink. Our leaders like to call their strategy borrowing, but it is really...
View ArticleFed Chair Powell Asked for Inflation and Now He Owns It
Fig.1 – Consumer Price Index – Federal Reserve of St.Louis May 30, 2022 – In March 2020, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Fed Chair Powell) was concerned that Inflation was not hitting the...
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