Suppose you sat down at a blackjack table and were dealt the ace and jack of spades. You turn over the cards and proclaim that you’ve got blackjack. But the dealer announces that from now on, the winning hand is 30, and you’ve lost. You’d be mighty confused.
So imagine how confusing it is that the gross domestic product (GDP) — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — is running at ...
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Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 45 stations) with his assertion that the Obama administration must stop imposing regulations that cost U.S. businesses $1.8 trillion a year, which not hurts growth but derails hiring. Specifically, he took aim at a new version of Cap and Trade, which was so unpopular, that it was voted down by both parties
Joining the show was first-time guest Michael Bastasch, who wrote ...
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After the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management, widely known as the Farm Bill, failed to pass in the House of Representatives, there was a lot of finger pointing.
But the finger should be pointed at every Congress since 1933 — the year the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed to help small farms with crop insurance, price supports, import barriers and other forms of aid to farmers who were earning barely enough to survive.
Unfortunately, like most government-administered programs, agricultural subsidies have ...
Finish Reading →Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 45 stations) by deriding the independent Congressional Budget Office’s findings that immigration reform is good for the economy.
“While it helps Wall Street and investors, the average American will find their wages shrinking, and along with it, employment opportunities. If 45 million more foreign workers enter the U.S. over the next five years, the 25 million Americans currently underemployed or unemployed will ...
Finish Reading →Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations) by proposing that with 54 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, this nation is creating a subclass of workers.
“We have the administration and media high-fiving about creating 175,000 jobs when we need at least 250,000 just to keep up with population growth. But the jobs we are creating are largely unskilled and low pay. That’s not sustainable especially when many ...
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