If property values don’t start increasing, the state may need to increase property taxes or tap the general fund to pay off its bond debt, legislative analysts told lawmakers. Read More..

Britain’s economy shrank by more than expected in the fourth quarter, data showed Wednesday, January 25 placing it dangerously close to recession as the eurozone debt crisis and austerity measures hit output. Gross domestic product (GDP) dipped 0.2 percent in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. Read More..

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Do you have an RRSP? If not, you should definitely consider the potential advantages of starting one. Read More..

There is no question that free trade has been bad for the country. Evidence of this is found in the shrinking of our middle class. While the rich are getting richer, the middle class is being relegated to low paying service sector jobs, with little hope of achieving the kind of financial success that could have been had just decades ago when our manufacturing base was still strong. Read More..

America is running on imports. Meeting the basic needs of the average American on only American-made products is incredibly difficult, if not impossible. Living on imports is not sustainable in the long-term, and the United States needs to find a way to pry itself out of this increasingly desperate situation if it wishes to maintain any quality of life for its citizens. Read More..

There is a growing consensus among economists that to tackle the nation’s economic problems, job creation needs to happen first, with controlling the deficit a distant second. Despite the fact that this idea is so widely supported, our government continues to ignore its needs to instead focus on the wants of the wealthy. We need to be funding projects that create jobs, such as infrastructure and new investments in green technology. Read More..

The U.S. trade deficit has ballooned since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, and this is not just due to competition. The Chinese have engaged in a number of unfair practices that have given them a big advantage in the international marketplace. Now the Obama administration is saying it will more eagerly address these issues through WTO complaints, but this will only be a band-aid on the huge problem that is the United States’ membership in the WTO. Read More..