Abound Solar "Investment" Failure Gets Securities Fraud Scrutiny
Another twist in the pitiful saga of stimulus-backed green "investment" failures.The company facing scrutiny is Abound Solar, based in Longmont, Colo. Colorado's Weld County has launched a securities...
View ArticleVoodoo Economics Pt 2: Government Doesn't Create Jobs
In a recent report, the Congressional Research Service revealed that welfare spending has increased by 33% under Barack Obama, topping out at over $1 Trillion annually. As I pointed out in my previous...
View ArticleThe $2 Billion Stimulus Disaster You've Never Heard About
In 2009, the celebration was on for an oddly-named company known as CH2M Hill. The engineering firm, performing the vast majority of the work at a cleanup project located on the Hanford Nuclear Site in...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as a Free Launch
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand."— Milton FriedmanAs President Obama took office in 2009, I sold electronic health...
View ArticleThe Battle Against Common Core Standards
Quietly and almost without notice, an initiative which significantly erodes local and state control of school curriculum has passed in 46 states. The Common Core Standards Initiative sets Math and...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline: Suddenly the President Opposes Temporary Jobs
President Obama recently gave a wide-ranging interview to the New York Times, in which the topic of the Keystone pipeline was rehashed. In it, the President mocked the idea that Keystone could be a...
View ArticleTesla is Lose/Lose for American Taxpayers
Our government doesn’t have a lot of extra cash, but that doesn’t seem to stop them from handing it out to their buddies. That’s not really a fiscally responsible way to live but, hey, that’s never...
View ArticleDid $1.8 Billion in Stimulus Funds Help Baltimore?
President Obama wasted no time politicizing the Baltimore riots, telling the press that he’s “under no illusion that under this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities.”Of...
View ArticleThe Debt
The price of money—also known as interest rates—is arguably the most important price in the economy, and when government fixes these rates below the market level, the markets are distorted and we end...
View ArticleThe Austrian Business Cycle
Peter Schiff gives insight on the business cycle, booms and busts, expansions and recessions that are baffling to many economists across the political spectrum. Most people still think that recessions...
View ArticleTrump's $10 Trillion Stimulus Plan
All of Washington seems to be in cardiac arrest over news reports late last week that Donald Trump is planning a budget featuring $10 trillion in cuts over the next decade. We can only hope and pray...
View ArticleBeware Coronavirus Cronyism
The passage of Phase III of the COVID-19 stimulus package has reopened the floodgates of federal spending. The nearly $2 trillion package covers everything from essential immediate assistance for small...
View ArticleThe $2 Billion Stimulus Disaster You've Never Heard About
In 2009, the celebration was on for an oddly-named company known as CH2M Hill. The engineering firm, performing the vast majority of the work at a cleanup project located on the Hanford Nuclear Site in...
View ArticleThere’s No Such Thing as a Free Launch
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand."— Milton FriedmanAs President Obama took office in 2009, I sold electronic health...
View ArticleThe Battle Against Common Core Standards
Quietly and almost without notice, an initiative which significantly erodes local and state control of school curriculum has passed in 46 states. The Common Core Standards Initiative sets Math and...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline: Suddenly the President Opposes Temporary Jobs
President Obama recently gave a wide-ranging interview to the New York Times, in which the topic of the Keystone pipeline was rehashed. In it, the President mocked the idea that Keystone could be a...
View ArticleTesla is Lose/Lose for American Taxpayers
Our government doesn’t have a lot of extra cash, but that doesn’t seem to stop them from handing it out to their buddies. That’s not really a fiscally responsible way to live but, hey, that’s never...
View ArticleDid $1.8 Billion in Stimulus Funds Help Baltimore?
President Obama wasted no time politicizing the Baltimore riots, telling the press that he’s “under no illusion that under this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities.”Of...
View ArticleThe Debt
The price of money—also known as interest rates—is arguably the most important price in the economy, and when government fixes these rates below the market level, the markets are distorted and we end...
View ArticleThe Austrian Business Cycle
Peter Schiff gives insight on the business cycle, booms and busts, expansions and recessions that are baffling to many economists across the political spectrum. Most people still think that recessions...
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