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This union intimidation tool puts new penalties on employers, going beyond the existing remediation tools now available through the National Labor Relations Board. There are no offsetting penalties on unions’ behavior when obtaining signed cards.

Barney Frank and the Federal government should mind their own business. The market will take care of "the business of business" without the "help" of an incompetent federal government that should place its focus elsewhere.

DaimlerChrysler has basically thrown in the towel by hiring J.P. Morgan Chase to find a way for the luxury German auto maker to divest itself of the Chrysler automobile company here in America. We went back and took a look at our stock research on the original German purchase of Chrysler and wondered how we got from there to here.

NAFTA is a treaty agreement that can be described as slightly controversial. One of the areas where NAFTA has had an effect is on the commercial trucking industry.

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has been tracking wasteful government programs since 1984. This watchdog group's latest yearly figure of how much spending is unnecessary is $232 billion dollars. Remember this gets piggybacked every year. Over 5 years, it amounts to more than $1 trillion dollars-yes that is trillion with a t.

What happens when a world renowned accounting firm decides to market tax shelters to its elite clientele? The first thing that happens is that the client buys them because of the source. In this case the source is utterly reliable; KPMG is one of the oldest and biggest Public Accounting firms in the world.

We need 25-30 year olds to reverse the spending madness of the last four decades Congress is full of career politicians. Getting reelected to advance their own career is fixed in the minds of all but a few. The needs of America are a distant second, if that.

Hedge funds have become a significant force in the investment world. At the beginning of the 1990's, hedge funds controlled less than $40 billion in assets, less than Warren Buffett's personal investment portfolio. Today there are more than 9000 hedge funds controlling in excess of $1.1 trillion dollars of assets.

If the Americans can cut their budget spending and stop their slide into statism, they will double their economic size in the next generation - something that the envious Canadians and duplicitous Europeans will never manage - irregardless of what their state owned propaganda issues forth.

Expenditures for the uninsured in Maryland totaled $1.47 billion in FY2002, according to an analysis conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The sum equates to $2,371 per individual without health insurance—paid for by state and federal funds, private insurance companies, physicians, charities and the uninsured themselves.

Merck got Texas Governor Rick Perry to sign an executive order requiring every young girl in Texas to receive the Merck vaccination Gardasil at $360 for three shots of the vaccine. Unless you can demonstrate proof that you have taken the shots, you are not going to be allowed to go to school.

You might be familiar with Amaranth LLC, the giant hedge fund that collapsed last fall, after blowing up $6 billion of investors’ money. It now comes out that the circumstances under which they self-destructed are worth studying.

Last July, while many were predicting a serious slowdown, economist Brian Wesbury predicted a strong economy for the future, if government policies did nothing to hurt growth. See the accuracy of his forecast.

Living In The World of Academia does not allow enough exposure to the difficulty of directly creating wealth day after day, year after year. In general, it seems to be the case worldwide, that professors have disdain for the business world.

Would you believe that last year in 2006 Merrill Lynch must have made net, net $2 billion for its own account after paying out lesser amounts in interest to its customers on their idle cash balances? That’s right; they made $2 billion after expenses but before taxes. Is this any way to run a firm? You bet it is.