Taxes Paid By U.S. Taxpayers Vs. Taxes Paid By U.S. Corporations

Throughout the 64 year period from 1947–2010, Individual American tax payers have paid over three-and-a-half times more in taxes to the Federal Government than have American corporations. Total individual...

Republicans Still Singing The One Note Tax Samba And Droning On

 As a one-time recovering Republican and now a small "r" republican/independent my two cents here, for what it's worth, is as follows: the Republicans would have us believe that reducing taxes for ...

Unemployment Rate High For Millions of First Time Job Seekers

Since April 2009, over a million first-time American job seekers have been looking for a job every month but there are no jobs out there for them.Unemployment Rate Climbs In November To 9.8 PercentAmerica's Economy...

Economic solution gap

Capacity for change and improvement I wrote in my book, Smart Data, that there are times when one can see a solution to a problem, though resources are insufficient to implement it. This is a common circumstance...

Deficient government policy results in companies suboptimizing

When companies should be in fresh pursuit of green energy, green production, green consumer products, they are propping up their financial position in themselves. They are doing this arguably because the...

Hour of truth by the Washington Post

It is that time of day when tidbits come across the wire from the Washington Post like this one. This is a real no sh’t statement. " “News Alert: Fed leaders: Economic recovery slower than expected02:49 PM EDT...

Stalling the inevitable adjustment: 30% drop in 4 years

Prediction: Real property and wages will fall 30% in four years Let’s say 10 years ago you bought a house for which you could barely make the monthly mortgage payment, but you did it 1) because you could get financing, 2) you believed that the freight train of increasing...

Bernanke promised to keep interest rates low ...

...but I´m not so sure He will keep the promise. Here my chart show that TNX (10 Year treasury note Yeld) breakout the bull flag and pointing up.With the money moving from bonds into stocks, falling bonds prices...

Is The Michigan State Story a Healing Balm for the Country?

Note: This was originally published on Eye on Sports Media.The eyes of the college basketball world will be on Ford Field in Detroit tonight as "hometown" team Michigan State takes on North Carolina for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. If you believe...

Vus, yus consoivatives; vie hew sew engry? by Arnie Sherr

Vel, I’ll tell ya! Seriously, ya know what really pisses me off? I’ll tell ya what really pisses me off; when the ‘right’ is upset because they are being asked to sacrifice for the good of those less financially fortunate. All we hear from conservatives is their...

Obama Breaks With Europe And Israel

Obama Breaks With Europe And Israel, Plans 2009 ‘State Of Emergency’ Rule By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo) whatdoesitmean.com Russian Foreign Ministry reports on the upcoming meeting between President Obama...

Best News of the Day

I keep getting news feeds Reuters that read "U.S. auto sales fall as recession deepens". I am sure that it was intended to be more "bad news" about the world economy, but I think that it is the best news I have...

The last Bush act: banning French cheese

The United States, it turns out, has declared war on Roquefort cheese. In its final days, the Bush administration imposed a 300 percent duty on Roquefort, in effect closing off the U.S. market. More

American Economy: Man The Life Boats!

Yes, the Fed can crank up its magical printing presses and pour dollars on the flames, but there is in actuality very little that the monetary authorities can do to fix the problem. In the long-run, the only...

American Economy: The Perfect Storm

As pretty much everyone knows by now, the American economy is in bad shape, and it looks like things are going to get a lot worse. We are all familiar with the general reasons for why we have ended up where...

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