TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

Brian Domitrovic for Forbes discusses how capital went on strike in the 1970s because of a clutch of onerous tax increases starting in 1969,...

And they will. TPC at Pragmatic Capitalism shows three charts  here  which demonstrate historically where we've been and where we are wi...

The cost of unemployment benefits already paid over the last three years has soared to $319 billion, according to this story  from CNNMoney....

The Associated Press is reporting today here that unemployment holds high and steady at 9.6%: Unemployment has now topped 9.5 percent for 1...

Ulsterman for NewsFlavor.com claims to have the following from a White House insider, there from the beginning but recently out: Obama the t...

The Washington Post has the story: The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw mil...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on the Ambrosetti conference at Lake Como, where Nouriel Roubini made the remark: Dr Roubini said US compani...

. . . 50 million Americans getting Medicaid, stopped getting it (cost $273 billion); . . . 40 million Americans getting Food Stamps, stopped...

Bloomberg.com had an important article in June about the Government Sponsored Enterprises in which it is estimated that they may reasonably ...

Kimberley A. Strassel updated the Alexi Giannoulias affair in mid-July for The Wall Street Journal, highlighting the source of the Senate ho...

For the story, go here . An additional and final revision is still forthcoming. Growth of 2.5% is necessary, according to widely reported st...

The billion dollar hitters include twelve states: California       6.9 billion Florida            1.6 billion Illinois            2.2 bill...

The following discussion of the initial report of first quarter GDP appeared here at HotAir.com: Obama: Drop in GDP growth rate means we’re...

Who wants to be a dog-kennel assistant, which is mostly a minimum wage pooper scooper making $8.55 per hour? Apparently 260 jobless people d...

It's all there if you really think about it, paler because it lacks a military face, but discernible nonetheless: Obama's stated goa...

A credit expert from Frankfurt is quoted painting a very grave picture of Euroland: "Economically, we are in a very risky situation. Gr...

(from econompicdata.blogspot.com )

Caroline Baum notices that President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget contains money for everything, it seems, except pyramid building: No lo...

President Obama, speaking to the House Republicans, on Friday, January 29, 2010, about the healthcare legislation debate: "Now, you may...

From Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The UK Telegraph: The broad U6 category of unemployment rose to 17.3pc. . . . Realtytrac says defaults and ...