by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months in which the economy added...
by Jane Richey | Mar 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
If we use terms such as “the new normal” for the economy, what was the old normal? Was there even a “normal,” or were things always turbulent or spiraling out of control? Believe it or not, the federal budget used to have a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is sleeping better now than he did a year ago, but says the economy still has “a long way to go.” “Things are … moving in the right direction,” he said in an interview with Diane Sawyer that will air...
by Jane Richey | Mar 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
With already 600 new regulations in 2012, a fellow in regulatory studies says the United States continues to be a nation of regulations. Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), who compiled the data, says 600 regulations since the first of the year...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Has the economy improved since Barack Obama became the president of the United States? Of course not. Despite what you may be hearing in the mainstream media, the truth is that when you compare the U.S. economy on the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated to the U.S....
