May 18, 2012
Today, Facebook finally goes public with a market capitalization of $104 billion. Its initial public offering (IPO) is the capstone of its amazing ascent that changed the way the world communicates.
May 4, 2012
The recent viral video sensation “If I Wanted America to Fail” confirms that the regulatory state is a major focal point for the center-right movement, and indeed much of America.
Mar 5, 2012
Those who loved Andrew Breitbart and those who hated him recall his pioneering innovations that have changed political activism — on both sides — forever.
Feb 6, 2012
It s April 2012. You are a conscientious congressional staffer who still takes seriously the need to be a steward of taxpayers money. (Yes, I know for a fact, there are more than a few of these folks around on Capitol Hill.)
You are watching closely events surrounding an...
Feb 3, 2012
In his letter to prospective shareholders in the middle of the 201-page Form S-1 that Facebookfiled Wednesday afternoon to launch its much-anticipated initial public offering, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that one mission of Facebook is to bring a more...
Jan 5, 2012
Yesterday morning, President Obama made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a powerful and largely unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law rammed through in 2010....
Dec 9, 2011
Ten years ago this month, Enron Corp. filed for bankruptcy. Today, with all of its dealings with banks, it would probably have been deemed too big to fail.
But luckily, this was before Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner occupied the Treasury Department. Enron was allowed to...
Nov 28, 2011
Attention Joe and Jane Citizen! Concerned about the fiscal future of your country and your family? Then please put aside for a few minutes the talking heads coverage of the supercommittee breakdown, and get information about a matter much more important to your country and...