Forward? No, we’re going backward
by George Landrith President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden never miss a chance to tell us that the economy is moving in the right direction. They claim they…
Credit Unions Offer Alternative for Consumers and Small Businesses
Congress Must Act to Lift Restrictions on Consumer Choice and Access to Credit in the Market by Horace Cooper Much has been written about the over-reach of Dodd-Frank and the…
Chicago Bled Dry by Striking Teachers’ Unions
by John Fund The smartest parents in Chicago right now are those whose kids attend charter schools, private schools, or parochial schools. Those institutions don’t employ Chicago’s unionized public-school teachers, who…
Frontiers of Freedom: Working to Stop the IRS Health Care Power Grab
Dear Senator: On behalf of the millions of members and supporters of our organizations, we are writing to offer our strong support for S. J. Res. 48, your resolution of…
Saved GM? Really? GM is losing $49,000 on each Volt it builds
by Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman (Reuters) Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each…
The Obamacare Fallacy: Bigger is better
by Benjamin Domenech At the heart of President Obama’s signature health care law is a simple idea: Bigger is better. His law incentivizes massive mergers of systems and providers into…
Trade Obama’s Excuses for Romney’s Results?
by Steve Huntley Hope needs more time. That was President Barack Obama’s message in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. But a country that was forced…
Crony Statism Harms America
When businesses feed at the federal trough, they threaten public support for business and free markets. by Charles G. Koch “We didn’t build this business—somebody else did.” So reads a…
Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look
Still above 8%—and closer to 19% in a truer accounting by Mort Zuckerman Don’t be fooled by the headline unemployment number of 8.1% announced on Friday. The reason the number…
Saved General Motors? It Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again
by Louis Woodhill President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail…
Obama’s Four Years Of Failure On Jobs
Jobs: A top White House economics spokesman cautions against reading too much into a single month of employment data — and we concur: One month isn’t enough. So how about…
No, Obama Hasn’t Cut Small Business Taxes 18 Times
by Investors.com President Obama has been running around lately claiming he’s cut small business taxes more than a dozen times. That no doubt would be news to the nation’s small…
Unemployment 8.1% as More Give Up Looking for Work
The nation’s most recent jobs report disappointed again with an anemic 96,000 new jobs added in August. Just to keep up with population growth, the economy would need to add…
Do the math, Mr. Obama, you’ve run out of excuses on jobs
by John Lott • FoxNews.com Despite a growing population, fewer Americans have jobs today than when Obama took office. And the jobs pay less, too. With the release Friday morning of…
Are We Better Off? Business Publication Says No
Economic Conditions: All weekend, Democratic party leaders kept fumbling their answer to a simple question: Are we better off than we were four years ago? There’s a good reason for that:…