There is an old Chinese curse that goes like this: May you live in interesting times. Tim Barello of the Examiner interviewed Gerald Celente of The Trends Research Institute and Gerald’s predictions are certainly interesting. The short version is this: Here we are in 2012. Food riots, tax protests,...

We’ve all heard about the disastrous state of sub-prime mortgages, and we’re starting to hear about the coming disaster in alt-a mortgages, but there is also a real story to be told regarding prime mortgages. Prime mortgages represent loans taken out by the best borrowers in our financial...

Tax competition is a term you are going to be hearing a lot in the next few years. Low taxes create growth and prosperity; high taxes strangle it. Governments that take a larger share of their nations wealth cause businesses to fail, citizens to become unemployed, and economics to shrink.  Governments...

Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute devoted the time and and effort recently to analyze the most recently salary and benefits information published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This is the kind of reporting we don’t get from the mass media, because it requires critical thinking. Chris’s...

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the disgraced National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter, showed once again just how far out of touch with reality the American left is. In an interview with The Beast, Brzezinski discussed the possibility of a pre-emptive strike by Israel on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. The...

Here’s an awesome video from John Stossel about how government-run health care works in the real world. John starts with the de rigeur explanation of the benefits of innovation and free enterprise, segues into the classic comparison of American health care versus Canadian and British “managed”...

The Obama administration just canceled plans for the placement of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Why was this system canceled?  It was canceled because the Russians didn’t like it. The system would have been useful in protecting the U.S. and our allies from the Iranians...