Unshred America

America’s growth, its entire business and housing market, most job-creating corporate functionality, has been based on the ready availabil...

Watching grass grow has a faster timeline that watching the economy improve. There are those who tell us that The Great Depression has a b...

Some call it Chimerica – the seemingly symbiotic yet tense trading relationship between China and the United States. They are our biggest ...

Clean coal… kinda sounds like, new, improved, vitamin enriched coal. Yum. All that greenhouse carbon dioxide (CO2) that is the nasty bypro...

In the early 1990s, after a plague of urban crime, many states passed the famous “three strikes and you’re out” laws – imposing a life sen...

Numbers don’t lie, unless they do. What do you think about a “recovery” where wages are stagnant, unemployment remains high, borrowers (pa...

Massachusetts is one of those states that opted for universal health care (signed into law by a Republican Governor, Mitt Romney, in 2006)...

Picture if you will a large ship being sucked backwards towards a vortex astern, a whirling oceanic anomaly that no one knew was there, th...

Sara Palin has a lot of followers. The Associated Press (August 8 th ) noted her first “post-gubernatorial” edict: “ Palin called Presiden...

Another couple of hundred thousand jobs gone in July (9.4% unemployment for the nation), according to the Department of Labor, but the job...

I’ve railed that the government and Wall Street seem more obsessed that the “numbers look right” than if the economy is getting better. Pe...

During the Cold War, that tense stand-off between the Soviet Union and the United States that ended with the fall of communism almost two ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is the other “white meat.” It a private non-profit of green-shaders – accountants who set the sta...

The U.S. has free choice of private medical plans, but no generally available governmental alternative unless you fall into one of several...