…why both so-called parties of fed dot gov don’t want to deal with the illegal immigration issue: illegals are helping keep the Social Security system afloat.
I’ve always known it was about demographics, but a recent WaPo article confirms it: by paying SS taxes but being ineligible to receive benefits, illegal immigrants are making a vital [...]

Google defines “enabler” as a person who through his or her actions allows someone to achieve something. Most often the term “enabler” is associated with people who allow loved ones to behave in ways that are destructive. For example, a friend enables a compulsive spender by lending them money to get out of debt. In [...]

Alan Greenspan, before he sold out and became a tool:

“In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If [...]

Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com):
10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from you.
9. [...]

            Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ You are.
Say whatever you want about Ayn Rand, some of the ideas in her epic tome “Atlas Shrugged” should be required reading in American schools. In our previous post, we introduced the idea of money and the manipulation (destruction) of its value. Without further comment, [...]

One of the enduring legacies (hangovers, really) from the Great Depression is the notion that the government can and should actively manage the economy. Schoolchildren still are taught, and most of us still believe, that Comrade Roosevelt’s massive government programs were instrumental in ending the Great Depression. The fact is that nothing could be further [...]

Very few people appreciate the extent to which the dollar is embedded in world trade, and what it means for the U.S. Dollar to be the world’s “reserve currency”. In fact, two-thirds of world trade is conducted in U.S. Dollars. The strength of the dollar is based on the strength of the U.S. [...]

The previous post was garbled somehow in the process of posting; apologies.
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The White House web site now contains a link to the just-released OMB Mid Session Review (.pdf warning). It is filled with lots of facts, figures, and general good fun! Let’s jump right in!
Guess what? It’s all Bush’s fault!

In January of 2009, the economy [...]

There was a good article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Lee Ohanian titled, “The Right Way to Raise Wages.” Here is a section of the article that discusses what unions do to wages:
Those want more unionization claim it is necessary to raise wages. Instead it will further depress the economy. My research suggests [...]

This is an hour-long video that I highly recommend. It covers a number of economic topics, all of which intertwine. Any one of them can be a study in itself.
The video portrays its message without pulling any punches. The fiscal path we are on is unsustainable, and has been for many years. [...]