President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, also well-known as Obamacare, won’t be fully implemented until next year, but the healthcare reform legislation is already causing a strain on the United States economy, according to recent reports. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released projections on how much the program will fully cost (see here), but perhaps […]
Archives for April 2013
10 wise ways to spend your tax refund this year
Taxes and death: the two surest aspects of life. Not everyone enjoys giving the government money from their hard labor, especially considering all the waste that takes place in the nation’s capitol. But you know what? It’s that time again. Whether we’d like to admit it or not, we have to complete our tax returns […]
Should student loans be forgiven and bailed out by the government?
I’m sure most people with large student loans love the idea of having them forgiven. And the federal government may actually do this someday. But there is a better way of dealing with the student debt crisis. One alternative offered in the below video put out by LearnLiberty.org is changing the law so that student […]
New chart shows the price of gold over three-year period
Worried about the price of gold dipping below $1,600? Don’t be. This new video from our friends over at Common Sense Capitalism looks at the price of gold since Jan. 2010 to Feb. 2013. Gold has risen from $1,100 per ounce all the way to nearly $1,800, but dropped to less than $1,600 recently. See […]
New York fast-food workers demand $15 wage, right to organize
Hundreds of fast-food workers rallied together outside of dozens of New York fast-food restaurants as part of demonstrations demanding higher wages and for the right to organize without ramifications from employers. The organization is calling for a $15 hourly wage, up from the median wage of $9, even in this economy. Protests were staged in […]