by Jane Richey | Jan 31, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Responding to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s warning that if the federal government continues to run annual $1 trillion deficits we will eventually face a debt crisis, liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Wednesday that that is not...
by Jane Richey | Jan 25, 2013 | Free Markets
First Niagara Financial Group released its Fourth Annual Survey of Pennsylvania Business Leaders today and the results are not encouraging. The survey was conducted by the Siena College Research Institute and the results were based on the responses of 715 Pennsylvania...
by Jane Richey | Jan 7, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Dan Celia: “We’ve watched Japan do this for 12 years. That’s the problem — nobody really cares about the economy stalling,” he submits. “The worst-case scenario [to most people] is the economy stalls and we have more people on...
by Jane Richey | Dec 11, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Appearing Monday morning on CBS, Obama’s jobs council head and the CEO of GE Jeffrey Immelt said that one thing that “actually works” is “state-run Communism” in China. After host Charlie Rose brought up the “growth rate” of China falling from double digits to about...
by Jane Richey | Nov 27, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Washington is in a dither over the fiscal cliff. The cliff consists of roughly $500 billion in tax increases that will occur on January 1, 2013 as the Bush-era tax rates expire, along with almost $100 billion in automatic cuts in government spending resulting from the...
