September 10, 2012

The Truth About the Unemployment Rate in 2 Graphs

See also: Un-Spinning Jobs Numbers On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases their important "Jobs Report" that details the previous month's employment statistics.  Among the menagerie of data points, the ...

February 4, 2012

Obama's Debt-Solving Plan: Tax the Rich, Not the Rest

In the his recent State of the Union address, the president took another swing at the country's top income-earners -- also a theme of last year's address.  Embracing the populism of the Occupy movement and their disdain for the top 1% of income-...

August 3, 2011

Kick that Can Again

Citing the $14.3T federal debt ignores real problem.  What we should be worried about is the present value of all future expenses, minus all future taxes. This encompassing figure uses the same math that pension funds use to ensure solvency and ...

June 7, 2011

Medicare is Bad Medicine for Young America

Paul Ryan is the champion of young America.  His budget proposal "The Path to Prosperity" of April 5th is the first serious attempt to derail the out of control train that is big government spending.  Reforming the government's old age ass...