McCain is widely considered to be a responsible authority on military and foreign issues. But as of late, many of his economic statements have been latent with a sort of anti-capitalist sentiment. This sentiment, whether it be more populist pandering or just plain economic ignorance, places some of McCain’s economic policies to the left of […]

As we have predicted at Election Stocks for some time and Kudlow predicted two nights ago on his show, Barack Obama is indeed depolarizing for a wider appeal during the General Election.
Great evidence of this comes with the news that Obama has changed up his economic advisor. This new advisor symbolizes the bipartisan effort Barack […]

On CNBC yesterday, the theme seemed to be Obama vs. McCain. The McCain supporters focused on McCain’s pro-growth tax cuts and attacked what they called protectionism from Obama; while the Obama supporters attempted to show Obama’s policies moving towards the middle while attempting to portray McCain’s policies as impossible.
The main points that were brought up […]

Oftentimes here at Election Stocks, we’ve brought you a view very supportive on free trade economics. We’ve used this view to support our idea that economics experts like Barack Obama understand the paradox in putting in tariffs to protect the lower classes. At last, I have found an article by a bonafide economist that supports […]

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are companies that might be able to help with the sub prime mortgage crisis with help from Chris Dodd, but first a little background. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are both government sponsored enterprises (GSE). What does this mean and entitle them to? This article is rather old, but still […]

At the start of campaign 2008 the idea that monetary policy would be part of the debate was quite a long shot. Despite Ron Paul’s talk about the dollar, inflation and the need for the gold standard, this topic was not likely to be embraced by debate questioners or other candidates.
We like to look […]