Report: Europe Continues to Stagnate. So Why Do Liberals Seek To Emulate It?
American liberals love to praise supposedly superior European governance and culture, oblivious to the irony that they nevertheless continue to live in the United States. This phenomenon became...
View ArticleIs the “Obama Recovery” Really the “Obama Malaise?”
Regardless of one’s political preference, no patriotic American welcomes economic misfortune. With this week’s news, however, one wonders whether we’re witnessing the onset of “Obama Malaise.”...
View ArticleToday’s GDP Report: Latest Proof of “Stimulus” Failure
Today, the U.S. Commerce Department reported disappointing 2.0% gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the third quarter of 2010. Not only is that number below the expected 2.2% rate, it’s also below...
View ArticlePathetic Economic Growth Report Illustrates Failure Of Obama Spending “Stimulus”
Barack Obama and liberals fraudulently claim that their massive spending binge “prevented another Great Depression.” It’s more accurate to say that their spending and regulatory onslaught stifled our...
View ArticleTaxing the Rich Won’t Fix the Deficit
In a brilliantly written refutation of the Obama-as-Genius argument, Mortimer Zuckerman explains why even taking all the money from “rich” people and corporations won’t solve the deficit problem: Even...
View Article2.5% GDP: Lackluster Is the New Outstanding in the Age of Obama
So the government reported tepid 2.5% gross domestic product (GDP) third quarter growth yesterday, and the market celebration it triggered says a lot about the bleak nature of the Obama economy. First...
View ArticleUnion Membership Falls to New Low, NLRB to Compel Employees’ Private Phone...
Today, the Department of Labor announced that the 2011 union membership rate fell to a new record low of 11.8%. Disturbingly, the rate among public-sector workers now stands at 37%, whereas the...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Bank Bailouts: Make the Bankers Liable
Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer has a perceptive review of the new book, “White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, our National Debt, and Why it...
View ArticleA Federal Budget That Ignores the Constitution
Writing in the Washington Times, Richard Rahn — Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth — puts the current state of federal spending in rather...
View ArticleWant to Reduce Public Spending? Make Government More Efficient
There’s a certain strain of thinking on the right that scoffs at the notion of “efficient government.” The skepticism of what seems to be an unobjectionable goal has a few sources. First, many pundits...
View ArticleGDP Report Confirms Our Commentary on Obama’s Economic Record
In this week’s Liberty Update, we highlight the falsity of the persistent claim that Barack Obama somehow prevented a great depression: [T]he federal government’s own economic data shows that Obama...
View ArticleImage of the Day: Obama’s Legacy = Worst Economic Growth Record
The Obama Legacy: the worst economic growth rate of any president since official recordkeeping began.
View ArticleImage of the Day: More Trump Bump, Which They Said Couldn’t Be Done
During the Obama years, when we endured the worst cyclical economic “recovery” in recorded U.S. history, we were told that the 3% economic growth to which we’d become accustomed since measurement began...
View ArticleImage of the Day: Inexplicable Economic Surge in 2017 and 2018
Inexplicably, U.S. economic growth has surged in the first and second quarters of both 2017 and 2018 after a deregulatory and tax-cutting presidential administration replaced a hyper-regulatory and...
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