Will Linking Student Loans to Markets Help Anyone?
Current students and graduates hold $1.1 trillion in outstanding debt — an amount greater than the nation’s combined credit card debt. Seventy percent of students who graduated this year owe an average...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Obamacare Leave Your Spouse Behind?
The Affordable Care Act will begin rolling out in October, and it will bring sweeping changes to how Americans get healthcare coverage. In particular, superstore-like state health exchanges — that are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obamacare Needs the IRS to Oversee These 47 Provisions
A great majority of conservatives — especially those in positions of leadership or with access to the airwaves — are outraged about Obamacare. They are concerned that the reform will drive up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Austerity Bites: GDP Revised Lower
The United States economy has definitely begun to feel the effects of austerity. Cuts to government spending held back growth more than initially expected during the first quarter. Drawing on revised...
View ArticleWondering What the Federal Government Does With Your Student Loan Payments?
Every single lawmaker, political commentator, and economic analyst has an opinion about the Affordable Care Act: how it will affect healthcare costs, insurance premiums, and the quality of healthcare,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Survey Says Obamacare Will Drive Up Premiums 40 Percent
One of the leading arguments against the healthcare reform bill championed by President Barack Obama is that it will increase health insurance premiums rather than make coverage more affordable....
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Natural Gas Surplus: To Export or Not To Export?
Campaign promises are one thing to make, but quite another to fulfill. That the promises were insincere, made simply to win the election, is one way to explain why a president’s pledges failed to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obamacare Critics See This Setback as Vindication
“One thing is clear,” Time columnist Joe Klein wrote at the beginning of April. “Obamacare will fail if he [the President] doesn’t start paying more attention to the details of implementation.” In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ADP: Federal Budget Cuts Are Finally Hurting Job Growth
Even though the job market has remained surprisingly resilient after the $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts that took effect March 1, businesses added a disappointing 135,000 jobs in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Natural Gas Take Over the U.S. Economy?
During President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House, soaring production of natural gas from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking has pushed supplies to record highs in each of the past...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here’s How the ECB May Respond to Low Inflation Rates
Low inflation rates in the month of October pose a fresh set of problems for the European Central Bank, the Associated Press reports. In October, inflation rates in the eurozone were just 0.7 percent....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are Higher Mortgage Fees Coming?
Unfortunately for those in the housing market this spring, things are about to get a bit more expensive if your credit score isn’t as shiny and bright as one could hope — the same goes for those...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Opinion: Here’s Why Republicans Need a New Leader
There is little argument that the Republican party is in great need of rebranding; 2013 was not an easy year for them. One could argue that it was not a particularly easy year regarding public image...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jobs Friday Brings Bad News, But the Labor Market Will Be Ok
Mark Ralston/Getty Images Sometimes economists grossly overestimate. Friday’s jobs report from the Department of Labor took analysts by surprise; the United States economy created only 142,000 jobs in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Can Congress Do About Pro Sports’ Domestic Violence Problem?
Rob Carr/Getty Images The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — the committee in charge of oversight of sports at all levels — convened for a hearing on Tuesday to discuss...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 States That Spend the Least Money on Food Stamps
Source: Thinkstock Food stamps are by no means a new concept, as the idea has been around for several decades in the United States. In the late 1930s, a type of food stamp program was created to help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Problems With Maternity Leave in America
Source: Thinkstock America is notorious for its less-than-generous approach to maternity leave. The U.S. is one of just two countries from a recent 185-country study where new mothers aren’t guaranteed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ADP: Federal Budget Cuts Are Finally Hurting Job Growth
Even though the job market has remained surprisingly resilient after the $85 billion in across-the-board federal spending cuts that took effect March 1, businesses added a disappointing 135,000 jobs in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will Natural Gas Take Over the U.S. Economy?
During President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House, soaring production of natural gas from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking has pushed supplies to record highs in each of the past...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here’s How the ECB May Respond to Low Inflation Rates
Low inflation rates in the month of October pose a fresh set of problems for the European Central Bank, the Associated Press reports. In October, inflation rates in the eurozone were just 0.7 percent....
View Article
