With just two years remaining on his term, President Obama is beginning to pull out all of the stops to increase spending while the getting is good. According to the non partisan Congressional Budget Office, the Federal budget deficit will continue to shrink for the next couple of years before it begins its inexorable rise… Read more »
Any time an asset or commodity falls 50% or more over a six month time frame, it is bound to make news. The continuing fall in oil prices has certainly been headline news as most consumers welcome falling energy prices. Unfortunately, the panic in the energy patch is not necessarily an unalloyed benefit for consumers…. Read more »
My mom used to tell me that there is nothing as powerful on Earth as an idea whose time has come. Historically, we can point to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of our Republic and the advent of digital technology as but a handful of examples of this truth. While each of… Read more »
