Shockingly Wasteful
The Environmental Protection Agency’s recently announced decision to, in effect, ban the construction of traditional coal-fired power plants in the United States is a non-solution to a hypothetical problem, enacted…
Americans Are Right To Oppose ObamaCare
The Continued Blame Game: Everybody who dislikes ObamaCare is being duped by GOP propaganda, says President Obama. That must include all those unions calling it a disaster, and all those…
The Family, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Tax Reform
Remarks by Senator Mike Lee to the American Enterprise Institute on September 17, 2013: I am here today because I believe the public policy status quo in Washington – and…
Economic Malpractice
It’s amazing how little President Obama has learned about economics in his four and a half years in the White House. Growth, incentives, tax reform, tax increases, private investment, the…
Obamacare Is Going to Come Tumbling Down
The only question is precisely when … by Peter Roff The Republicans are at loggerheads over the issue of health care. Some, believing the party’s commitment to “repeal and replace”…
Killing the American Dream with the Minimum Wage
Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more “compassionate” towards “the poor.” But they seldom bother…
The Poor: Reagan vs. Obama
by Ralph R. Reiland I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013.…
The Weak Recovery Explains Rising Inequality, Not Vice Versa
Obama blames tax cuts that began under Reagan for today’s slow growth. The data don’t back him up. By John B. Taylor Last year at this time a debate raged…
The US job market is dead in the water and not getting better
How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not…
The ObamaCare bomb
The scheme is about to blow up the incentive to work A mere three weeks remain before the Obamacare exchanges open for business. The likely result will be the closing…
On Indian Gaming, Walker Has it Right
The Wisconsin governor has issued a set of principles that should be viewed as a model for the nation by Peter Roff Originally designed as a way to compensate Indian…
Worse than Carter
The “labor force participation rate” hit a record low hit at 63.2 percent. This represents the percentage of Americans over the age of 16 who have jobs (even if it is part-time or…
Obamanomics in decline
Falling income and employment is becoming the new normal Fewer Americans will be returning to the work force after the traditional Labor Day holiday. Labor force participation is at the…
We should accelerate energy production boom
Government should speed oil infrastructure improvements, a key piece in America’s manufacturing resurgence. A bright spot in the U.S.’s sluggish economic recovery has been historic growth in North American energy…
Jobless rate is worse than you think
by Heidi Shierholz On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. And more than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a big…