Category Archives: economics

I have always wanted to do a Return on Investment (ROI) calculation on the Chevy Volt but was lacking details into the charging power required to replenish the batteries but now that has been provided to me.  See the following … Continue reading →

There was a recent article in the Washington post that compared the Romney tax plan to the Obama tax plan and while the article was written to show how Obama’s plan is better from a Liberal worldview (punishing the successful … Continue reading →

More times than not, complex economic issues reduce down to motivations.  It doesn’t matter whether you are talking about consumers or producers – It is important to understand the motivations of both if you hope to understand the market and … Continue reading →

Janet Daley from The Telegraph wrote a great article a couple of days ago that everyone should read.  This article gets to the heart of the income inequality/fairness meme currently being peddled by the Left and I’ve stated before that … Continue reading →

Remember this date (03-FEB-12) because on this day Americans (and Conservatives in particular) got two pieces of good news that could have impacts for the 2012 election and our country going forward. First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued … Continue reading →

Robert Reich teaches public policy at the University of California at Berkley and served as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton.  He graduated from Dartmouth, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale.  So … Continue reading →

There was a story on NPR today that validates the much maligned Laffer Curve and this is a problem for Obama and the rest of his tax and spend Liberals. The Laffer Curve (shown below) states that the amount of … Continue reading →

Remember that Obama announced his plan to bring down Unemployment in September 2011 and called it the American Jobs Act (AJA).  The AJA was really just a sequel to the Stimulus 2009 and the bill would not have helped unemployment … Continue reading →

The Penny is one of the most useless items we have in America right now.  Most stores have a jar at the cash register where you can place pennies that you get as change so that other customers can use … Continue reading →

Obama will not win reelection if the US economy during the latter half of 2012 is similar to the economy we see now.  I do not subscribe to the theory that Obama will win reelection by spouting the ‘do nothing … Continue reading →

The latest battle in Congress is over the payroll tax cuts which are about to expire at the end of 2011.  The payroll tax cuts are really a reduction in social security deductions from our paychecks (6.2% to 4.2%) and … Continue reading →

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 20 years, you know that manufacturing in the United States has fallen.  From this link, you can see that US manufacturing as a percent of GDP has fallen from a high … Continue reading →

I pondered in a previous post  how we would structure government expenditures if we were starting a new country.  But let’s expand that thought experiment and ask – what are the measurable goals for our country?  What are we striving … Continue reading →