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Monetizing Facebook’s vast user data may not interest the CEO, but it had better become a priority. Facebook bulls and bears are out in force, talking around the vital point…. Read more »

Of the 13.3 million Americans who were unemployed in the first quarter of 2012, a staggering 29.5% have been out of work for 52 weeks or more (the official definition… Read more »

If austerity is so terrible, how come Germany and Sweden have done so well? By ROBERT J. BARRO The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance… Read more »

By Attorney Steve Grow – John Maynard Keynes taught that it helps our economy when the government borrows so it can spend more than it is taking in. Generations of… Read more »

by Carol A. Taber –   Many Americans probably don’t know this, but not all taxes are created equal.  There’s a reason for this: the less society understands about our… Read more »

Ed Driscoll – And now for news of fresh Blue State disaster, both home and abroad. But first, some background. Back in 2010, Theodore Dalrymple explored the revival of centralized… Read more »

By Mark O’Connor – Treasury’s last Inter-generational Report contains, hidden away on page 91, a simple stunning statement: Australia’s oil will be gone by 2020. The timing could not be worse. By 2020… Read more »

By Tom Watkins – The Detroit and Wayne County scandals and fiscal crises are terrible things to waste. As Gov. Rick “Relentless Positive Action” Snyder likes to say, we should… Read more »

The Chesapeake Energy chief on his compensation, the ‘opportunity’ in $2 natural gas, his brawl with the coal industry, and a few words on President Obama. CEOs can be a… Read more »

President Obama has spent his term in the White House trying to tax, spend and regulate the nation into prosperity. Obamanomics, Keynesian economics on steroids, has been an abysmal failure…. Read more »