Are We Better Off? Business Publication Says No
Economic Conditions: All weekend, Democratic party leaders kept fumbling their answer to a simple question: Are we better off than we were four years ago? There’s a good reason for that: We’re not. It...
View ArticleSaved General Motors? It Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again
by Louis Woodhill President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once...
View ArticleSaved GM? Really? GM is losing $49,000 on each Volt it builds
by Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman (Reuters) Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt it builds,...
View ArticleForward? No, we’re going backward
by George Landrith President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden never miss a chance to tell us that the economy is moving in the right direction. They claim they need more time to pull the...
View ArticleThe best analysis of the week …
“Name a single thing that has improved under [Obama’s] rule…. “Almost the entirety of the Muslim world is now rioting against an American president who promised that his olive branches to Muslims would...
View ArticleA serious president? No, an absentee president
by George Landrith We already knew that the economy is sluggish and in trouble. But now we learn that the economy is far weaker than previously understood. But that is not the only unflattering truth...
View ArticleB.O. K-O-ed
By Jim Geraghty • NRO We knew Mitt Romney would be prepared — his campaign has had him doing only one rally per day most days, spending hours and hours on debate prep. From watching the primaries, we...
View ArticleThree Things Obama Must Overcome for the Next Debate
Lack of Desire, Knowledge and Confidence by Scott L. Vanatter Why was Obama just not that into it (the debate)? Three possible reasons include a lack of desire, a lack of knowledge of basic economic...
View ArticleBiden’s Debate Deceptions
During the debate, Vice President made history by surpassing Al Gore for bad, boorish, and rude behavior. He laughed uncontrollably, signed, groaned, and laughed some more and engaged in generally...
View ArticlePresidential election: Who can ignite economic and job growth?
By Charles R. Schwab Every American voter is approaching a critical decision. Of the two presidential candidates before us, who is best suited to lead our nation through the next four years? The answer...
View ArticleThe most divisive President: A presidency wasted
by Victor Davis Hanson The Obama narrative is that he inherited the worst mess in memory and has been stymied ever since by a partisan Congress — while everything from new ATM technology to the...
View ArticleFact-checking President Obama
by George Landrith Let’s fact check President Barack Obama’s debate statements. He spent a lot of time since the first debate and during the second debate complaining that what Gov. Mitt Romney said...
View ArticleObama doubles down on failed green energy projects
by Andrew Stiles President Barack Obama appears to be doubling down on his policies of using taxpayer money to finance green energy investments despite an increasingly spotty track record. “We’ve got...
View ArticleRonald Reagan, “What Ever Happened to Free Enterprise”
“Will we, before it is too late, use the vitality and the magic of the marketplace to save this way of life, or will we one day face our children, and our children’s children when they ask us where we...
View Article5 years later: How’s that Wreckovery working out for ya?
by Michelle Malkin On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun and the moon and the stars. That was the day, five years ago, when he signed the $800 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment...
View ArticleA Recovery Stymied by Redistribution
Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common. by Casey B. Mulligan Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does it remain depressed?...
View ArticleWill Stimulus Money Help Put Texas Central’s High-Speed Rail Back on Track?
Construction for a high-speed train that will zip between Dallas and Houston at more than 200 miles per hour is still in the works. But with costs estimating almost $20 billion more than initially...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Snuck $350M for 50 Richest Zip Codes into COVID Relief Bill,...
At some point, when the election chaos is finally settled, Congress will likely turn to passing another COVID-19 stimulus/relief bill. (Despite the last one being plagued by rampant fraud and...
View ArticleMcConnell’s Right – The $2000 Checks Are a Bad Idea
How much is enough? It’s a question America is going to have to answer, and soon, lest the need for additional COVID relief packages overwhelm the nation’s ability to pay for them. The national debt,...
View ArticleAn Unnecessary “Stimulus”
In two Defining Ideas articles in 2009, “Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? I Am” and “Furman, Summers, and Taxes,” I criticized Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman, two prominent economists who worked in...
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