by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Lawmakers will not have to re-fight their epic battle over raising the debt ceiling until after the November elections, according to the Treasury Department. April tax receipts have not moved Treasury’s debt-ceiling target date, and Secretary Timothy Geithner...
by Jane Richey | May 3, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
If you ran a business with $25 billion in losses over the last five years, $20 billion in annual losses projected in the coming years, and 80 percent of its locations losing money, do you think that your company would stay afloat? Should it be rescued with a bailout...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Last week, the total amount of debt emanating from student loans in the U.S. reached $1 trillion. With the Great Recession still present in the daily lives of the middle class, salaried jobs for college graduates are tough to come by. Many have had to settle for...
by Jane Richey | May 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A new survey of Fortune 100 companies finds that the health care overhaul, contrary to the claims of its authors, created some perverse incentives for employers to drop workers from company insurance plans. Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee surveyed...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Eight Pennsylvania entities that received more than $10 million in federal stimulus money failed to complete mandatory quarterly reports showing how the money was spent. The eight recipients — cities, counties, nonprofits and companies in the Keystone State — are...
by Jane Richey | May 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for six months, Britain has fallen back into...
