by Jane Richey | Apr 3, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
According to the Washington Post, the Obama administration is pushing big banks to make more home loans available to Americans with bad credit – the same kind of government guidance that helped blow up the housing market: In response, administration officials say...
by Jane Richey | Dec 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s precisely what we’ve done: turned to...
by Jane Richey | Aug 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
After every other recession since World War II, the U.S. economy always regained what was lost and got even stronger before the next recession began. During this “economic recovery”, we have not even come close to getting back to where we were in 2008. In...
by Jane Richey | Jul 27, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The Commerce Department also said Friday that the economy grew a little better than previously thought in the January-March quarter. It raised its estimate to a 2 percent rate, up from 1.9 percent. Growth at or below 2 percent isn’t enough to lower the...