What does it take to recover?

If you don’t know the answer to the question, how are you going to recover? That is the question, how are we going to right the economy? First, it takes capital in the hands of the private sector who know how to...

Take my Job. Please!

Using comedy to make a serious point, Stephen Colbert is publicizing a challenge made by American farm workers who are tired of being villanized in the press. "SAN FRANCISCO – In a tongue-in-cheek call for...

Job Camp

As unemployment figures soar, the UK government comes up with a cunning plan to show lazy, useless, benefit scroungers a trick or two.  Job Camp is the latest government scheme aimed at the unemployed.  A...

Skint not Idle: Carol & Ruje’s Story

In this short report, two friends explain their situation.  Carol has been living on benefits for five years and talks about the difficulties of surviving on so little money.  Recent university graduate...

Baby boomers and young adults are in a holding pattern

Stay put, I guess. The trouble is that as you get older, approaching a more fixed income, you can’t afford to live in a community where people are earning more and more, and the cost of living continues to...

Obama’s false economy

Socialist President, Barrack Obama, wants to continue stimulating the economy with high deficit financing in order to keep himself and some of his party in power. If he doesn't keep public stimulation, the...

Manufacturing key to winning America’s fight for the future

I have been saying it, and here is some proof. Dan Wagner reports “manufacturing remained a key engine of economic recovery.” Want more growth, stimulate more manufacturing. With a transformation from...

Obama socialism and welfare won't grow the economy

The fundamental answer to growing the economy is to promote jobs in the commercial sector by making capital available to entrepreneurs and businesses. Government policy should promote research, development, and...

Massive Human Displacement in Mumbai

While flying into Mumbai at 3 o'clock in the morning, the first thing I noticed was the absurd amount of activity going on within the city.  The number of cars on the road rivaled most US cities during rush...

Indian Solar Economy Brings New Vocation for Women

India has started to make significant advances in developing solar power technologies for the poor. There are now whole villages using solar energy and improving their standard of living. Various companies and...

China: Strikes and Prosperity

China has been having strikes and demonstrations all over the country for better wages and working conditions. While some may see that as having negative potentials for the Chinese export boom, I am not one of these people.It was Henry Ford who first figured out that...

Oil Spill and Energy Policy - by Bernie Sanders

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an unmitigated disaster. Its full consequences will not be known for decades. What we do know, however, is that BP president, Tony Hayward, was incredibly...

President Obama Impotent On U.S. - Mexico Border Issue

President Obama is impotent as are Congress members in standing up for American citizens when it comes to illegal immigrants. Drug gangs are running rampant, killing Americans that get in their way. Drug gangs involved in kidnapping and human sex slaves trade...

Business Owner Says Economy Not Turning Around

"The Obama Administration wants Americans to believe the economy is beginning to turn around and that President Barack Obama’s efforts are starting to result in more and more “saved and created jobs.”  Ask Rick Misch for his assessment of the economy, however, and...

Unemployed and Overqualified in Canada?

Was it last week that I invited Now Public members to peruse my nascent group on Facebook- which I encourage any of you who are on EI, are forced into work overseas (like myself), or have serious qualms about how the Canadian Government is reacting to a colossal problem that...

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