Category: Economic Growth

Even Jay Leno Recognizes the Tax Burden on Small Business!

I guess the current business climate is worse than I thought.  From Newsbusters on how to close Guantanamo Bay.  

May 01, 2013 | 12 comments | by

Who Spends What?

Gallup released a survey last week showing that American households earning $90,000 a year of more reported that their daily spending has fallen about 36 percent since 2008. This spending excludes mortgages, cars and utility bills. One of the biggest arguments used against giving tax cuts to upper income households is that any financial benefit from the [...]

Dec 10, 2012 | 9 comments | by

Income Inequality Revisited…For the Umpteenth Time

Oct 09, 2012 | 6 comments | by

Profit Margins: What Neither CandidateTold You Last Night

“Now, does anybody think that ExxonMobil needs some extra money, when they’re making money every time you go to the pump? Why wouldn’t we want to eliminate that? Why wouldn’t we eliminate tax breaks for corporate jets? My attitude is, if you got a corporate jet, you can probably afford to pay full freight, not [...]

Oct 04, 2012 | 3 comments | by

Gasoline, Baseball and Replacement Refs: The Wonders of the Free Market

Recently, I posted a blog about the folly of price controls on gasoline, particularly during hurricanes and other times of potential shortages. It was met with some consternation on the part of a few, which I wholeheartedly welcomed as part of a lively discussion. Price-gouging, as many suppliers are often accused of during hurricane season, [...]

Sep 28, 2012 | 3 comments | by

The QE3 Is Sinking and We’re Just Rearranging the Deck Chairs

I could spend this blog post crowing about the Fed’s recent decision to print more money (er…uh…quantitative easing round three or QE3, as it is termed), but since I have found comprar viagra online that I am not alone in my doubts about its cialis in uk effect on the economy, I will instead share [...]

Sep 14, 2012 | 7 comments | by

Earth to Congress: The Fed Can't Fix This

Today's Wall Street Journal highlighted the often-ignored plight of the U.S. fiscal cliff buy viagra online . Beginning in January 2013, $1.2 trillion viagra no prescription of automatic, across-the-board cuts in discretionary spending will take place over 10 years, as directed by the congressonional “supercommittee” last November (yawn…remember them?). Of course, there is still time [...]

Aug 10, 2012 | 4 comments | by