by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Ask anyone who owns a business what happens if you borrow and spend more than you take in as revenue. After your listener has a good chuckle, she will undoubtedly tell you that you won’t have that business for very long. Then ask her what happens if the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The natural gas market has been transformed by the rapid expansion of shale gas production. A dozen years ago, shale gas amounted to only about 2 percent of United States production. Today, it is 37 percent and rising. Natural gas is in such ample supply...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
A new proposal by Gov. Tom Corbett to give a long-term $1.7 billion state tax break for a planned Marcellus Shale gas petrochemical refinery in southwestern Pennsylvania is a late-emerging issue in the state budget debate. The tax credit proposal for a $4 billion...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Politics
The Delphi Technique and consensus building are both founded in the same principle – the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, with synthesis becoming the new thesis. The goal is a continual evolution to “oneness of mind”...
