After the last day of 2011 in positive Asian financial markets have closed the first day of the new year with a mixed result can be described as flat. The first closing

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

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,

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

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

While many politicians blame the lack of jobs on the federal budget deficit, it is actually America’s trade deficit that is the root of our problems . The U.S. is still millions

The question the Occupy movement needs to start asking now is, what will the next step be to take our government back from Wall Street? Every voter should realize that the occupiers

The idea of globalism has been pervasive in our national discourse in recent decades. Corporations now have global strategies and have little or no loyalty to the country where they got their

I’m sorry but I get very excited about this kind of stuff.  I love data, especially the kind of data our policy-makers rely on to make their future decisions.  Although the BBook

Politics in the United States can be boiled down to one thing – fundraising. The top 1 percent pay the politicians very well in campaign contributions to do their bidding. However, it