This week, on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, Rush mentioned and played a few snippets of a video produced and posted by FreeMarketAmerica.org. The presentation gave light to the how and why America appears to be...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago 246 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
The pressure is again being mounted by some in the conservative media for former Speaker Newt Gingrich to withdraw from the GOP race. I sound a word of warning to conservatives against any such move and in fact, urge them to support Speaker Gingrich in whatever way possible...
Nominal GDP The primary metric for the performance of the nation from optimizing return on national resources is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “Nominal GDP” is market value of GDP: the current market value...
A fresh outrage by Bank of America (BoA), moving to foist at least $22 trillion nominal value of Merrill Lynch derivatives onto the FDIC-insured bank unit of the unbroken-up behemoth, shows why only...
Bernanke speaks Until capitalists are engaged in the process of engineering high returns from American investments, the economy will drag on. Until government reins in spending to a radically significant level...
Fed Chairman Warns of Slower Economic Recovery In a testimony before Congress, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that the economic outlook was "unusually uncertain", and that recovery was not as strong...
Ben Bernanke was re-elected as the Chairman of Federal Reserve by Senate today. Bernanke was voted 70 to 30. But, before the Senate re-elected Bernanke today, a cloture vote had to be held first. But what does...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 462 views | 18 recommendations | 3 comments
Ben Bernake will get a second term as the Federal Reserve Chairman in a senate vote that took place today. The final vote count was 70-30 and this is just three days before Bernanke's first term was scheduled to end. A cloture vote had to be reached first however. President...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 172 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) held its first hearing today. According to its website (http://www.fcic.gov/about/), the Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the...
opinion by Mike Kearney | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 604 views | 22 recommendations | 6 comments
So what if @aplusk has well over four million Twitter followers, with @britneyspears and @TheEllenShow closing in? That doesn’t mean us regular folk, with 74 followers, have to hang our heads in social media shame. Having millions of Nigerian scam emails cluttering our...
opinion by Sondra Lowell | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 366 views | 3 recommendations | 3 comments
Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, Chair of the US Federal Reserve. In other words, Ben Bernanke is the man who is in control of the US money supply, and therefore a singularly powerful player on the world economic stage. It's not too surprising that...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 279 views | 34 recommendations | 8 comments
Friedman's "solution for reducing the prospect for active intervention as well as the margin of human error was to propose the establishment of monetary rules instead of monetary authorities," explains Vox Day the...
Companies paying bosses vast bonuses while getting state assistance offended peoples' values, says President Obama. Timmy Geithner the Treasurer says, seven companies must slash the basic salaries of their 25...
opinion by PIM of SPAIN | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 357 views | 74 recommendations | 9 comments
By; Rev. Jermano
I remember the words all US politicians use and that is protecting the US people from terrorism. That is why Bush lied and went to War...against Iraq and Afghanistan. They summoned the...
opinion by djermano | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 160 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Traveling through Europe the last couple of weeks brought a closer insight in the economic development underway.Meanwhile the US Dollar has fallen in an opposed direction compared with stocks, gold, and the rest of...