by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year’s elections. Most of what’s said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income...
by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2014 | Free Markets
A new report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute stated that the United States, in partnership with Canada, has the energy resources to make the country completely independent of outside sources for liquid fuel supplies by 2024.Calling the state of the...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Roughly 347,000 Americans gave up looking for work in December, allowing progressives to claim a sharp drop in the formal unemployment rate during the month. The formal unemployment rate fell from 7.0 percent to 6.7 percent even though only about 74,000 extra people...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Free Markets
The economy added a paltry 74,000 jobs in December, a figure far below the gains of recent months that raised immediate questions about the strength of the economy — and whether the report was an exception to the trend. The unemployment rate dropped from 7 percent in...
by Jane Richey | Jan 9, 2014 | Free Markets
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. It’s taken socialism half that time to come back from the collapse of the Soviet Union. In New York City, avowed socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio has declared that his goal is to take...
by Jane Richey | Jan 8, 2014 | Free Markets
U.S. Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Tom Donohue unveiled a wide-ranging plan to create jobs through boosting domestic energy production, reforming the tax and entitlement systems and slashing red tape facing the private sector. Delivering his annual State of...
