He’s Barack Obama. Sending his veep choice straight out to all the young people via text message sometime within the next week. Gimmicky? Sure. A bad idea? Not in the slightest. Honestly, can you think of a better way to appeal to the young vote? It’s not just pandering, it’s entirely legitimate. He’s taking advantage [...]

With gas prices seeming to be the focus in voters’ minds, the rising food prices that the market today is facing are often ignored. However, much like gas prices, food prices are both an important and complex issue. In fact, rising food prices are such a complex issue that it is hard to even reach [...]

Obama and McCain have been running almost neck and neck for some time now – Obama still managing to hold a small lead in the polls. It’s a situation where the Democratic candidate ought to be triumphing valiantly over the tarnished Republican brand. And yet Obama is not. Many people are attempting to analyze and [...]

The Capital Gains Tax seems to be the chink in Obama’s economic armor. He is capable of adequately defending all his other tax hikes, or really any other part of his plan, but the Capital Gains Tax hike appears indefensible. From an NY Sun article: According to the Institute for Research on the Economics of [...]

Statistics show that under Democratic presidents, the US economy experiences more growth and a greater level of equality. Many professors tend to dismiss these statistics and buy into the idea that the economy typically does better under a Republican administration. But what can a president actually do to change the economic landscape in the short [...]

Barack Obama and free trade advocate are not two phrases often heard in the same sentence, without an “is not” in between them of course. In fact, OnTheIssues.org says that Obama opposes supporting and expanding free trade. However, the Economists View has a great article that explains a slightly different definition of free trade. If [...]

(Click image for full size) The unemployment rate is on the rise. It seems that no matter how you look at it, that is a simple fact right now. Different ways of interpreting the data seem to all be showing a rise (for some good insights about on interpreting unemployment data, check out our sister [...]