Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category

24% of American Homes are Upside Down

According to a report released by CoreLogic this week, 24% of all U.S. single-family residential properties are under water — meaning that the home is worth less than the homeowner owes on the home.  This condition affects 11.2 million American homeowners. Negative equity is one of the two main...
May 12th, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Obama Administration Imposes Onerous Reporting Rules on American Business

The congresspeople who voted for the recently health-care “reform” legislation admitted to not reading the legislation first.  Obama reneged on a promise to make the legislation available online for the American public to read before he signed it.  Perhaps these factors explain how a major...
May 7th, 2010 | Economics, Health Care, Politics | Read More

Best to Worst Tax Systems for Small Business

One of the best things about living in the United States is the high degree of mobility Americans have in moving from one state to another.   You move, stand in line for half a day to get a new drivers license, lose another half a day updating your vehicle registration, update your auto insurance,...
May 7th, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Breaking News: Stock Markets Go Up AND Down

The stock market sharply fell on Thursday, but staged a partial recovery before the closing bell. On Friday, the market continued it’s downward trend with another 112 point slide. The mainstream media attempted a shady cover-up of this correction by blaming a “technical glitch” or...
May 7th, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Crash Proof 2.0

Some people like to claim “I hate to say I told you so” — Peter Schiff is not one of those people. Peter, however, has earned the right to say that to his many critics.  Crash Proof 2.0 is a revised edition of Schiff’s 1997 Crash Proof.  This version leaves the original text intact and adds...
May 6th, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Ricardo Martinelli is More American than Barack Obama

Last November we published Implement Free Trade Now, documenting the Obama administration’s lack of good faith in implementing free trade agreements with important allies such as Colombia, Panama and South Korea. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the unnecessary delays in the implementation...
May 2nd, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Government Greed is Forcing America’s Best and Brightest to Seek New Homes

Because of the amount of money the government insists on taking from its citizens—both domestically and internationally—some have decided that it is better to drop American citizenship and look elsewhere for a new home. A little over 500 people renounced their citizenship to America in the 4th quarter...
April 22nd, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More