During this year’s presidential campaign and in the many contentious congressional and senate races across the United States, the economy has been the predominant issue. How could it not be? The real unemployment rate is in the low-20s, household debt is the highest since the recession began in 2008 and 90 percent of households will […]
Commentary
Why a Democratic or Republican administration’s foreign policy would further cripple U.S. economy
This week, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Vice President Nominee Paul Ryan went head-to-head in the only (uneventful) vice presidential debate of the campaign season. As the vice president annoyed much of the viewing public with his constant smiling and laughing and Ryan just sitting there taking the abuse, the two men talked a […]
Why Everyone Should Despise The Fed
There was an article posted on CNN Money by Charles Riley recently titled “Federal Reserve: GOP’s Whipping Boy.” Predictably, it explained reasons why Republicans are crazy and why the Fed is legitimate, by asking a couple people whom no one knows and that have skin in the game. Republicans are most definitely crazy, but the […]