by John Browne | Mar 19, 2010 | Investing
Last week, the Dow closed at 10,741, up some 64 percent since its 2009 lows, [03/19/10, Yahoo! Finance] when most markets had priced in the likelihood of financial Armageddon. As the markets have rebounded from the brink of disaster, many Wall Street cheerleaders have... by Peter Schiff | Mar 18, 2010 | Investing
In his latest weekly New York Times column, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman put forward arguments that were so nonsensical that the award committee should ask for its medal back. Recent rhetoric from Washington has put the economic relationship between the... by Peter Schiff | Mar 18, 2010 | Investing
By late 2009, as the U.S. dollar flirted with multi-year lows against most foreign currencies, big investment players crowded into trades that shorted the greenback. Commentators noted that the anti-dollar momentum had taken on a life of its own and that the trade had... by Paul Hsieh MD | Mar 17, 2010 | POLITICS
This upcoming week will be *the* critical week in the health care fight. Speaker Pelosi is expected to start the process for the House to hold its final vote to approve the Senate Bill. The vote will probably take place at the end of this upcoming week.... by Richard E. Ralston | Mar 16, 2010 | Healthcare
The most effective means of destroying the rights of individual Americans is by replacing those rights with new powers for the government. Then, instead of the right to the pursuit of happiness, the political class declares that everyone has a right to be supplied... by Jeff Scialabba | Mar 15, 2010 | POLITICS
Should [the ObamaCare bill] pass, the largest new entitlement program since the New Deal will be a reconciliation process and a Presidents signature away from being enacted. This is Congress and President Obamas proposed cure for the ills of our... by Sylvia Bokor | Mar 10, 2010 | POLITICS
Recently I finished reading Rules for Revolution, by David Horowitz.* There, Mr. Horowitz discusses to some extent Saul Alinksy’s influence on Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton. But his main thesis is identifying some aspects of Alinsky’s goal to destroy the... by Jean Moroney | Mar 9, 2010 | Psychology & Living
It’s easy to fall into a counterproductive pattern. Perhaps you often check email before settling down to work–and then reading the email wipes out your morning work time. Or three days in a row you put off an important call until the afternoon–then... by Richard E. Ralston | Mar 4, 2010 | Healthcare
The President’s summit on health care revealed major schisms between public policy and reality. Those who feel that they must keep repeating to Americans that their health care is “broken” overlook a more fundamental problem. Most Americans, based on...