In this week’s election, Democrats attempted to label Republicans as “the party of ‘no.’ ” Instead, voters labeled Democrats as the party of no jobs, no growth and no clue.…
Solving Our Problems By Executive Order
Why didn’t he think of this sooner? President Obama announced during this week’s State of the Union address that he is going to bypass Congress and issue more executive orders…
No, We Can’t
Someone had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. …
The Unnoticed Recovery
It seems that every day we hear about a stronger economy with real jobs, a recovered housing market and renewed manufacturing strength being just ahead. We hear about it. We…
U.S. Without a Budget for Four Years and Counting
As of April 29, the U.S. government will have operated without a budget for four years. Based on the budget he proposed this week, President Obama intends to keep the…
Sequestration: The Crisis Du Jour
It’s crisis time again in Washington, D.C. Having just barely avoided a swan dive off the fiscal cliff, the leaders of our country are now locked in battle over the…
From Goldfinger to Groundhog Day
Tick. Tick. Tick. It’s like that scene in “Goldfinger,” where the seconds are ticking down and James Bond is trying to defuse the bomb. He succeeds, of course, just in…
Looking Over the Fiscal Cliff
You’ve heard plenty about the fiscal cliff. But little attention has been paid to what’s beyond it. What’s beyond it is another higher, steeper cliff. The federal debt now exceeds…
The Good News: No More Election Ads
In the wake of Tuesday’s re-election of President Obama, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 434 points in two days, a drop of 3.3%. That’s better than when he was…
The Truth about High-Frequency Trading
We’ve been critical before about high-frequency trading. While regulation sometimes makes matters worse, it’s encouraging that he U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing this…