by Jane Richey | Jul 14, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Spain is the latest European country to enter the tough terms of a bailout, agreeing to slash spending and jack up taxes in exchange for the financial lifeline. Think that kind of fiscal emergency couldn’t happen here? While debt and deficits have fallen off...
by Jane Richey | May 29, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said Monday that people in the United States have no need “to get all in a dither” over Europe’s debt crisis, according to a report. Plosser told The Wall Street Journal he feels that Europe’s economic...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Free Markets
A political stalemate in Greece rattled financial markets worldwide on Monday, sending U.S. stocks lower. The price of oil and Treasury yields hit their lowest levels of the year. The euro sank to a three-month low against the dollar. The Dow Jones industrial average...
by Jane Richey | Mar 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Don’t worry, America — Europe and the global economy will be just fine within a few years. This was the final message heard by a group of over three hundred financial professionals, delivered in a presentation by a chief economist of a very large and...