Economy
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San Francisco bookstore learns cost of $15 minimum wage the hard way
It's the economics, stupid.
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Obama’s death tax increase just won’t die
Obama’s revisiting the death tax … again. The government already taxes death at a rate of up to 40%. But…
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Study: Trimming unemployment benefits helped economy
President Obama’s policies shrank employment and delayed the nation’s economic recovery by discouraging people from working. The Congressional Budget Office says Obamacare will shrink…
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U.S. taxpayers to subsidize India’s solar energy boom to tune of $4 billion
Get ready to foot the bill for India’s electricity, as the Obama administration has pledged billions of dollars to fund…
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Interview with Congressman Dave Brat: ‘America’s bottom 80% is sinking’
US. Rep. Dave Brat says he wants to be the “most boring guy in Congress.” That doesn’t mean the freshman congressman…
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1 in 5 children in U.S. now relies on food stamps (Video)
Food stamp use in America continues to climb, and the numbers are staggering for children. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that…
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Union goes ballistic over right-to-work proposal, calling GOP lawmakers ‘f**king liars’
A political advocacy group is calling out the leadership of a West Virginia union for attacking a new right-to-work proposal.…
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Report: Obama’s ‘middle-class economics’ will raise everyone’s taxes, including middle class’s
President Obama’s tax plan, which he claims is rooted in so-called “middle-class economics,” will raise taxes on the middle class, according to…
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Stunning revolt: Senate Dems block fracking regulations
Democrats turned on one another Wednesday night and voted against an amendment that would have given the federal government the…
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CBO director takes issue with Obama’s rosy recovery talk
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the House Budget Committee Tuesday and may have burst the Presidential bravado about…
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U.S. ranks 12th worldwide in economic freedom
Liberals love to talk about freedom and the economy — just not in the same sentence. Don’t expect the White House…
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Fed knows best: Obama steamrolls Alaskan tribes to ‘save’ their land
America’s only lawmaker to be born in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is livid over President Obama’s plan to ask…
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Agenda 21: Obama commits to helping India build ‘smart cities’ (Video)
During his trip to India, President Obama declared America’s commitment to “help design smart cities” and “bullet trains” in the country. The…
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Taxpayer alert: Fannie Mae ready to bust a move
Fannie Mae, the quasi-government mortgage investor at the epicenter of America’s historic real-estate crash, is about to make another costly…
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Obama’s massive land grab has Alaska furious: ‘We will fight back’
President Obama announced Sunday that his administration plans to close off the oil-rich 1.5-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and offshore areas…
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NCAA, UNC sued by former athletes over having been subjected to bogus classes
The University of North Carolina and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) are being sued by two former student athletes…
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Watch black activists pan President Obama’s State of the Union address
A group of black activists in Barack Obama’s adoptive hometown of Chicago blasted him and his message following his State of…
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Why the minimum wage promotes discrimination
Despite lofty rhetoric to the contrary, minimum wage laws increase the likelihood of racial discrimination. According to black economist Walter…
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Obama State of the Union proposals would cause double taxation and job losses
In his recent State of the Union Address, President Obama called for tax increases on the wealthy, such as by…
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Oops! 1,700 private jets — including Al Gore’s — headed to World Economic Forum
“Billionaires, world leaders and pop stars,” Newsweek notes, are headed to Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual World Economic Forum. And all will…
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SOTU fact check: Obama takes credit for low gas prices, says global #1 national security threat
Much of Barack Obama’s penultimate State of the Union address was about — and often made up of — hot air. But a facet…
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Video: Wolf Blitzer can’t recall ‘another SOTU with so many veto threats’
Barack Obama turned the page last night. That’s not my opinion, that’s his. What he turned the page to seems…
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Gone with the wind: 25% of wind turbine companies went bust in last two years
Business has not exactly been booming for some wind turbine companies, according to a new report that found that one in four suppliers…
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Tom Hanks op-ed on why Obama’s free community college push is such a snazzy idea
In Somerset Maugham’s parable “The Verger,” a man fired from his low-paying church job because he is illiterate opens a chain of…
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Obama mocked ‘drill, baby, drill’ before; now he wants credit for it (Video)
Democrats, led by President Barack Obama, openly sneered at the idea of increasing domestic oil production to stem rising gasoline…
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Feds spend big to understand why gay men do stupid things
Why do some gay men make poor life choices? The federal government wants to know, and is spending half a million taxpayer…
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Obama’s free community college gambit is a plan to subsidize failure
Critics are charging that President Barack Obama’s proposal to publicly fund community college tuition would amount to a lavish subsidy…
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Central planning disrupts the harmonious order created by free markets
Beginning in the 1930’s, the federal government sharply increased central planning of the economy and society. (Perhaps as a consequence,…
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Karma strikes Harvard faculty when they see premiums rise under Obamacare
Faculty members at Harvard are in an uproar over their escalating health insurance costs — all because of the Affordable…
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Making 2015 count (Video)
As conservatives gain ground in the campaign to depose John Boehner as House Speaker, there is a new hope that…
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Obama’s War on Coal has transformed Virginia from economic leader to laggard
After years of outpacing the nation in economic growth, Virginia is sputtering. Employment is lagging, real estate is flat, and…
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Tweeps slap down suggestion that ‘now is the time’ to raise the gas tax
With gasoline prices hovering at around two bucks a gallon, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) suggests now might be the time…
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As audit appears imminent, Fed seeks ‘Emergency Preparedness Specialist’
One result of November’s shellacking ver. 2.0 by the GOP is that Republicans will have the chance to order an…
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