37 posts categorized "Economy"

September 05, 2011

America’s Industrial Revival

This Labor Day America stands on the brink of an industrial revival. During the next decade millions of Americans will be re-employed in manufacturing. Tens of millions more will be newly employed in jobs supporting manufacturing and serving the needs of manufacturing employees. The financial sec More...

August 09, 2011

What Government CAN do to Create Jobs

"It's time to go big or be sent home," says Andy Kessler writing in The Wall Street Journal. He continues with six big ideas, none of wh More...

June 27, 2011

Trotters in the Public Trough

Their salaries are grossly out of line; their retirement benefits are astronomical. We, the public, are paying to maintain their lifestyles while our own income goes down. Their influence on elections keep More...

June 06, 2011

Bad News for Investment Banks; Good News for the Rest of Us

"BRUSSELS—Support is building among senior European finance officials for a plan to press Greece's private-sector creditors into accepting a debt exchange that would result in delayed repayment to them, people familiar with the matter say.

"But that agg More...

May 17, 2011

The Free Market Needs Government to Function

This post is my response to a brilliant commentary by Bill Schubart, most but not all of which I agree with. You can read his original at The Free Market: An Enduring Myth (Guest More...

May 16, 2011

The Free Market: An Enduring Myth (Guest Post by Bill Schubart)

This commentary by my friend Bill Schubart originally aired on Vermont Public Radio (you can hear it here).I asked permission to post it here both because I admire the thinking and so I can continue the disc More...

April 25, 2011

Bankers Crying Wolf on the Debt Ceiling

Failure to raise the debt ceiling does NOT have to lead to default! That claim is a scare tactic by bankers, the same crowd that TARPed us. The pundits' wisdom that Congress shouldn't discuss deficits while raising the debt ceiling is almost as funny as the line "No fighting in the w More...

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