Time to Safeguard Ourselves from Rising Protectionism
Last week, Pascal Lamy, chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO), gave a stark warning that rising protectionism is a serious threat to global economic… Read More
Rescue Taxpayers from Flawed Farm Policy
House leaders on Tuesday proposed a drought relief package for ranches, orchards, and nurseries as a substitute for the massive five-year farm bill that has… Read More
Protectionism Shuts Down “Nathan’s” Hot Dogs
In recent years, this country has been plagued with an epidemic of over-achieving teenage entrepreneurs who refuse to waste their youth sitting in their parents’… Read More
Postal Service in Default: The Beginning of the End?
Today the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will default on $5.5 billion in payments to the Treasury for future retiree health benefits. That is no small… Read More
Another Temporary Budget Deal: Don’t Blame a “Broken” Process
The stopgap spending agreement reached by House and Senate leaders may be the only way Congress will escape a post-election “lame duck” showdown over funding… Read More
The Sweet Fruits of Free Trade
After years of delays and renegotiations, a free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea (KORUS) finally took effect four months ago. Some… Read More
Sluggish Economic Growth: More Reason to Renounce Tax Hikes
On the afternoon of another discouraging assessment of the nation’s economic growth, the Obama Administration late Friday quietly released its mid-year update of the budget…. Read More
House Considers RAISE-ing Workers’ Wages
The RAISE Act would rewrite the National Labor Relations Act to make union rates only a minimum wage. If employers wanted to, they could always… Read More
The Right Road on Regulation
Regulation is like the weather. Everyone likes to complain, but nobody does anything about it. That’s not true, however, of the House of Representatives, which… Read More
Even More Bad News on Obama HHS Gutting Welfare Reform
The Obama Administration has created a firestorm by claiming the authority to waive the work requirements of the popular 1996 welfare reform law. But the… Read More
Morning Bell: Senate Votes to Raise Taxes on Small Businesses
Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time… Read More
Nearly All Americans Favor Welfare Work Requirements
The vast majority of Americans favor work requirements for welfare recipients, a new Rasmussen survey reveals. According to the survey data, released last Wednesday, “83%… Read More
How Much Debt Is Too Much?
Following the news that the U.S. national debt has increased by $1 trillion for the fifth year in a row and that Greece’s debt crisis… Read More
Farm Bill Misses Crucial Food Stamp Reform
The U.S. Department of Agriculture appears to be on a mission to recruit food stamp participants. Radio advertisements, Spanish telenovelas (soap operas), and reaching across… Read More
Who Wants Washington to Prevent Taxmageddon?
Taxmageddon, a one-year $494 billion tax increase, is coming on January 1, 2013. Reports of the economic destruction Taxmageddon would create are growing by the… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #35: Reams of Simplicity from CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a veritable wellspring of costly dictates and regulatory excess. Among the dozens of pending regulations it has concocted… Read More
Morning Bell: Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Strangling Economy
Has your bank raised its fees or stopped offering free checking accounts in the last couple of years? If so, you can thank the regulatory… Read More
Obama Administration Rebuffs Congressional Inquiry on Legality of Gutting Welfare Reform
Two Members of Congress demanded an official explanation from Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) for its gutting of welfare work requirements—and HHS responded… Read More
China Likes American Stuff, and That’s Good
China’s State Administration for Foreign Exchange is buying $1.5 billion worth of pension assets from General Motors. The assets are positions in funds held by… Read More
O Canada: Riding High on Greater Economic Freedom
A recent Canadian study examining average household wealth in Canada and the U.S. reported something quite shocking. According to the study, the average Canadian has… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: How Welfare Reform Helped Families
The best anti-poverty program is a job. That was the mantra of the 1996 welfare reform, which changed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children… Read More
Morning Bell: Let’s Be Honest About Outsourcing
Both candidates in the presidential race have been accusing the other of “outsourcing.” It’s one of those words that is loaded with negative meaning, implying… Read More
Needless and Irresponsible Delays on Congressional Appropriations
After weeks of decent progress in advancing the fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations bills—the annual spending bills that finance the operations of government agencies—the process,… Read More
Marissa Mayer & the Gender Gap That Wasn’t
A woman won’t become the CEO of anything if she is overly focused on the so-called “gender gap” in her field. Marissa Mayer is the… Read More
Congress Rightly Seeks Details on Defense-Devastating Sequestration
With the commander in chief refusing to address the crippling, automatic cuts to national defense scheduled to start on January 2, Congress is appropriately stepping… Read More
New Poll: Majority of Americans Want to Stop Tax Hikes for All Incomes
A new poll shows the majority of Americans—including those on the low end of the income spectrum—are against hiking taxes for those making more than… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business
That sound you hear is silence—as millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs were left speechless this weekend from President Obama’s latest insult. The slap… Read More
Online Chat on the Obama Tax Hikes – LIVE NOW
Commonly known as “Taxmageddon,” taxes are set to go up on January 1 for everyone if Congress fails to act. Click here to join us… Read More
Obama Guts Welfare Reform
Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy… Read More
Fitch Ratings Warns: Congress Must Address the Fiscal Crisis
Proof of President Reagan’s wisdom keeps cropping up. A fresh example: The U.S. has retained its AAA credit status with Fitch Ratings, mainly due to… Read More
