April 1, 2014

Ezekiel Emmanuel's Reaper Curve

Ezekiel Emanuel has written extensively, before and after he helped draft ObamaCare, about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty,...

September 10, 2011

Famous Economist Inadvertently Blurts Out the Truth About Keynesian Economics

Alan S. Blinder has all the credentials and accolades which liberal elites crave.  He is a Princeton economics professor, the first member of President Clinton's original Council of Economic Advisers, a former Vice Chairman of the Board of Gover...

May 4, 2011

Incompetence is the Charitable Explanation of The Federal Reserve Board's Behavior

All who have a growing concern about a breakout of inflation may be happy to know that the Vice Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, has some comforting words for you.  Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, among other thin...

March 20, 2011

Let the American People Vote on a Recovery Plan for the Economy

As we wallow our way through towards economic recovery from has now been the longest recession since the Great Depression, the Obama Administration continues to impose policies that are completely detrimental to a successful long-term recovery. ...

March 2, 2011

The Social Security Trap

After paying payroll taxes for perhaps as long as 45 years, it is reasonable for workers to expect Social Security benefits upon retirement.  Therefore, these benefits are not exactly free.  In fact, nearly all workers in America have been ...

February 18, 2011

How ObamaCare Kills Medical Innovation

Now we know what rationing will look like under Obama Care, with the FDA's decision to ban doctors from prescribing the drug Avastin to patients with breast cancer. And it's only the beginning.  This first step, impeding the use and development ...

January 20, 2011

Liberals Who Hate Profits but Profit from 'Green Jobs'

The left has long trumpeted the "green economy" and "green energy" as the fuel and means for the next big economic boom.  At the heart of the "green energy" agenda is the expansion of windmill farms, at taxpayer exp...

December 31, 2010

Goldman Sachs Prospers at Taxpayers' Expense

If prudent investors can make only 0.5% on short-term assets, how does Goldman Sachs prosper?Robert Rubin was a very powerful man.  After 26 years and rising to the level of co-senior partner, he left Goldman Sachs in 1994 to become Treasury Sec...

December 22, 2010

Seeds of Financial Catastrophe

Although our economy is still struggling to recover from what is now the longest recession since the Great Depression, the latter was a much greater catastrophe.  From 1929-1939, unemployment reached as high as 25%, industrial production dropped...

November 14, 2010

Is the Federal Reserve Destroying the Dollar?

If you think our economy is in bad shape now, just wait. To be sure, economic prospects for jobs and growth already are bleak, and the Obama administration has increased the national debt in less than two years from over $10.632 trillion in January 2...

October 9, 2010

Obama's Takedown of Industrial America

Obama's industrial policy is designed to make America non-competitive in the world economy, destroy millions of jobs, and devastate our manufacturing and industrial capacities. No one will want to invest here, and fewer and fewer U.S. companies ...

October 9, 2010

America's Ruling Class Knows Best

Bravo Thomas Lifson.  Here is Karl Marx's lament on the topic of feudalism as cited in my book A Simple Guide:  How Liberalism, a Euphemism for Socialism, Destroys Peoples and Nations: "The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper ha...

September 4, 2010

Surrendering to the Executive Branch

As the Department of Health and Human Services starts the process of drafting the 30,000 to 50,000 pages of regulations to implement the 2,800-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, you have to wonder how the regula...