by Jane Richey | Jul 9, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model. LaHood told The Cable last week: The Chinese are more...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Free Markets, Politics
Weak June manufacturing numbers released Monday intensified concern about the fragility of the economic recovery and turned election-watchers’ attention toward unemployment numbers due out at the end of this week. The reports, just four months before voters cast their...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Just because you were once the most powerful nation on earth does not mean that you will always be the most powerful nation on earth. Every single year, hundreds of billions of dollars leaves the United States and goes to China. This enormous transfer of wealth has...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Should our fighting men and women be forced to drive unarmed SUVs into war zones, with speed as their only defense against rocket and car bomb attacks? Tragically, that’s a true story of U.S. military readiness today, and America’s defenses will only get worse under...
by Jane Richey | Mar 14, 2012 | Free Markets
The White House says China’s restrictions create an unfair advantage for Chinese producers, which could harm domestic industrial production of green technology and force some factories to move overseas. China mines 97 percent of the world’s supply of...