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You can expect a concerted effort from the usual suspects to win over the media and masses with relentless brainwashing, conditioning, and agitating. And you can expect Republicans to stay in their default position of defense instead of going on off
U.S. stock futures are pointing to a slightly higher open as the President and Congressional Republicans tackle the fiscal cliff.
Retailers moving into old downtown buildings, an abundance of freshly planted greenspaces, and a stream of new jobs in Knoxville, Tennessee, are all signs to Mayor Madeline Rogero that for the last year prosperity has been blooming in her city.
Pew Center on the States just released a report which breaks down the impact of the fiscal cliff's sequestration cuts on each state.
President Obama offered Republicans a detailed plan for averting the year-end “fiscal cliff” that calls for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, $50 billion in fresh spending on the economy and an effective end to congressional control over the size of the na
The penny has run out of luck, both in Canada and in the United States. Back in March, the Royal Canadian Mint announced that they were phasing out the penny due to “low purchasing power and rising production costs”, according to CBC News.
Negotiations hit a snag after Republican aides characterise proposals made by Treasury secretary as 'outrageous'
With Detroit set to go bankrupt by mid-December, one state legislator has suggested that Michigan’s largest city should be dissolved as a municipality and merge with a neighboring county.
The constant bad news about the sorry state of the nation has left me feeling like a cartoon character being pummeled in one frame after another in a comic strip, as if balloons are floating over my head containing the words: Pow! Bam! Bonk! Zap!
US Case-Shiller home price index (9:00 EDT): We expect the Case-Shiller 20-city home price index to show a 3.6% y-o-y increase in September as price gains continue to spread across the country (Consensus: 2.98%, previous: 2.03%). An increasing number
Companies are racing the clock to hand out billions in special dividends before year end—and some of them are taking on debt to do it.
The head of the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said the agency must be allowed to ease the terms of prepayments into a retiree health-care fund and eliminate general mail delivery on Saturday.
It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.
Business executives and others who’ve met with President Barack Obama in recent days describe a president who’s supremely confident that he’ll come out on top of a fiscal cliff deal
By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar.
Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus:
One in every 706 homes received a foreclosure filing in October, according to RealtyTrac's latest foreclosure report.
I've known about this for years, but Craig Steiner has laid it all out with the numbers and the facts. Steiner also explains that it was the usual doublespeak and government "arithmetic" that made it look like the U.S. government had a surplus.
US Cyber Monday sales broke records as online shoppers shelled out 30 percent more on web deals compared to 2011. Is this good for an economy on the edge of recession or is it inconsequential, as many of the purchases were for items manufactured abro
The widely followed house price index showed prices rising 3.0% year-over year, just a tad ahead off expectations of 2.95%.
The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.
The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.
Bankrupt San Bernardino, California, voted on Monday to present a plan to a bankruptcy judge that seeks to balance its budget through deferring payments to the state's public employee pension fund and to the city's bondholders.
Government intervention - not the rigours of the free market - is the cause of financial mayhem.
In his NY Times column Paul Krugman lets himself go and calls for an outright "inflation solution." The government, he says, does not have to worry about debt, since it can print as much money as it wants and investors apparently never
Answer: healthcare spending by all levels of government (federal, state, local). It has increased from $228 per capita in 1960 to $3,369 per capita in 2012.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports, “This season appears to mark the end of Black Friday as we know it.” Well, that's not exactly good news.
Whether or not Black Friday becomes Black Thursday or even Black Wednesday, I believe that businesses shou
WHAT distinguishes modern man from his ancestors is the expectation of steady economic and population growth.
Mr Rawles, I’ve read and enjoyed each of your books, and I am an avid prepper -- it’s only a matter of time before we have an economic collapse.
Congress returns from its week-long Thanksgiving holiday Monday, as lawmakers and President Barack Obama try to avert a looming fiscal crisis that could send the entire US economy plunging into recession again.
