Too Little, Too Much, Too Late: The Arab Spring Speech
The president gave a speech billed as a major policy address last Thursday. In it he made a major change in the U.S. stance on Israel/Palestine. According to the Israelis, it showed that he knows too...
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Is America Collapsing Back Into Recession?
In many ways our country has never really recovered from the 2008/2009 economic debacle. The modest recovery that has emerged has come as the result of a historical running of the money printing...
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The Wrecking of America
If you have paid a lick of attention to the recent budget/debt charade, you may be as sick to your stomach as I am. Presiding over the sinking ship is a president who in all honesty does not have a...
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Terrified Investors Watch Life Savings Evaporate!
Events of the past week have again driven home to investors the fact that the financial markets, dominated by computer-driven institutional trading, can feel like WWII’s Battle of Bastogne. The word...
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A Bird’s Eye View of the Trouble We’re In
Chart 1 - Click to Enlarge How is it that President Obama can rumble around the heartland of America in his jet-black Obamabus touting his presidency when he has absolutely nothing to tout but failure,...
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Forecasting Recession
In October, the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence expectations index plunged deep into recessionary territory. The index has only been lower twice in its more than four decade history. Both...
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The Single Greatest Risk to the Global Economy
While global equity markets continue to cheer every positive headline out of Europe, the Italian government bond market implodes. Even with the European Central Bank intervening in the market, the...
View ArticleMy Encounter with Andrei Illarionov, Former Senior Economic Advisor to...
Debbie and I were visiting West Palm Beach’s Anne Norton Sculpture Garden with fellow attendees at Cato Institute’s February Benefactor summit. It turns out that Debbie’s mom had stayed there when a...
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Gabriel Gomez for Senate
On June 25, voters in Massachusetts will be given a choice. They can vote for Rep. Ed Markey, one of the most liberal congressmen in the House of Representatives according to National Journal, or for...
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Navy SEAL takes on the Embodiment of the U.S. Debt Fiasco
The fight for John Kerry’s vacated senate seat is heating up in Massachusetts where you have a Navy SEAL up against the embodiment of what’s wrong with government. Matthew Payne of The Wall Street...
View ArticleSomali Refugees Swamp Tennessee Town
The immigration issue is much bigger than the politicians want you to recognize. If you saw the movie Black Hawk Down, you will remember the crowd profiled here with more than a little concern. Erick...
View ArticleA 4th of July Message from One of Our Country’s Better Presidents, Calvin...
From President Calvin Coolidge’s “Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence” in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926: It was not because it was proposed to establish...
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The Health of Cities
Take a look at the work here on the fiscal health of U.S. cities. Click on the image below to see the entire WSJ interactive display. The post The Health of Cities appeared first on RichardCYoung.com....
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Off to Wyoming for More Skiing and Less of This
One of my clients splits his time between Florida and Wyoming. He skis and collects cars. He never complains about state taxes. The successful residents of NY, NJ, and CT may want to follow his lead....
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Misery Index
Steve H. Hanke, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, breaks-down the misery index. Read more here for the misery index on a global scale. The Great...
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“We Are All Dishonored”
Troubles at the department of Veteran Affairs have been known for a long, long time. For example, over a dozen years ago, Don Imus, an ex Marine and host of the nationally syndicated Imus in the...
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Our Tweeter-in-Chief
Obama at “Twitter Town Hall”In his commencement speech last week to graduating students at Boston College, John Kerry warned of the “crippling consequences” of climate change. The figure he used to...
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Shame on Us
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric ShinsekiOn reading an article on Eric Shinseki, a retired four-star general and now secretary of Veteran Affairs, I was puzzled and saddened to learn of Mr....
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Ditch your iPhone
NSA can track you even if your phone is OFF! Sound like science fiction? Sorry, and the news gets a lot worse as you will read here.Just because you turned off your phone doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t...
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Anybody Home?
Ferguson, ISIS, Ebola, VA scandal, IRS misconduct, Texas border crisis, ObamaCare malfunctioning, White House intrusions? Is it any surprise that, according to a recent poll, 64% of voters think...
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