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PowerTrend Brief: Fasten Your Seat Belts, Market Turbulence Ahead

For the first seven weeks or so of this year, the stock market cruised higher each and every week. I ...

Daily Data Flow: Italy’s Election Pushes Stocks Down; Gold Futures Have Best Day this Month; Insurers Unsure on Yen Decline

As partial election results from Italy became available today, early gains in U.S. stocks were erased...

10 Governors Setting a Fiscal Example for Washington

As the National Governors Association meets in Washington, D.C., this week, there’s plenty of dire ne...

Does the Market Really Need Consumer Spending?

The U.S. economy and stock market don???t need consumers as much as you think they do. Consumers coun...

The spending cut that wasn’t

Anyone familiar with decoding Washington-speak knows that while sequestration is routinely described ...

Nutmeg State firearms workers speak out for their industry, jobs

The total economic impact to the state would exceed $1.7 billion....

New York’s soda ban: the Nanny State goes wild

The detailed implementation of New York mayor/nurse Michael Bloomberg is under way, and the New York ...

Visceral ideology

There’s a big push on the media Left to paint Senator Ted Cruz of Texas as some sort of loose cannon ...

Healthy Tacos with Ground Beef, Turkey, and Veggies

Serves 6 (4 tacos per serving) Here’s a meal you can feel good about serving. It’s loaded with lean p...

Easy Ways to Get the Foods You Need (Even if You Hate Them!)

As a life-long vegetable lover, I???m always a bit mystified when a patient says, ???I hate vegetable...

Debunker: Obama Says Deficit Cut by $2.5 Trillion. Really?

No, not really....

Bob Woodward tells the story of sequestration

One of the more inconvenient stumbling blocks for the President’s sequestration narrative is that Bob...

Missing the mark on ‘gun control’

Certainly in any area where one side is proposing new liberty-reducing regulations, the burden of pro...

The minimum wage conundrum

The latest Pew Research survey has produced all sorts of conflicting information about the attitude o...