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• Real house prices will probably keep falling
• Payroll tax cut -- a new entitlement?
• China raises their 25% tariff on American-made cars
• Canada Abandons Kyoto Treaty. The U.S.( Not a Member!) Should Abandon It Also.
• Romney's Theory about Why Companies and Countries Decline - We're published in today's American Thinker
• The Economists' Liberal Agenda, a review of: Roubini, Nouriel and Stephen Mihm, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (NY: The Penguin Press, 2010.
• Listen to Ray on the Ron Morris (The American Entrepreneur) Radio Show
• Romney’s Theory about Why Companies and Countries Decline
• Required Reading, Michael Lind's "The Cost of Free Trade"

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Economy - Long Term

• Can NIH get out a Vaccine by Fall?
• The solution to COVID-19 is in Sight! - we're published in today's American Thinker
• Trade Deficits Are Taxes on American Workers Levied by Foreign Countries
• Trade Agreements Are "Entangling Alliances" That Are Difficult to Exit Once They Are Approved.
• Trump's 3.2% economic growth puts Bush and Obama to shame - we're published in the American Thinker Blog this morning
• There Is Less Inequality Now Than Ever Before in History
• There Is Less Inequality Now Than Ever Before in History
• Unpaid Family Leave - A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
• National Capitalism, Rather than Mixed Economy or Socialism, Best Describes Economic System
• No Danger From Man-Made-Global Warming
• No Danger From Man-Made-Global Warming
• Easy to Get Entangled in an Alliance, Hard to Secede
• EU commissioner to White House today: $5.1 B Google fine on agenda -- we're published in American Thinker today
• The Laws of Diminishing Returns and Increasing Cost Apply to Government Expenditures
• Did Trump Cause the Improved GDP Growth -- Ray and I were published in the American Thinker this morning
• What Income Tax Reforms Are Needed?
• Suggested Reforms of the Personal Income Tax
• Pres. Trump Makes His Worst Deal Ever, the Pivot Toward China and Away From Russia 
• Against the High Tech Luddites
• Socialism Causes Slow Growth and Is Prone to Violence
• The Corporate IncomeTax Is the Worst Tax Ever Invented
• Trump's First Priority Should Be to Balance Trade
• It's Morning in America 2.0 -- Peter Navarro in SF Chronicle
• Trump is Correct: GDP Growth Lowest since 1929-1939 - my blog entry in American Thinker this morning
• The Case for Free and Balanced Trade  
• The Case Against Free Trade
• Trump Gets It Right: Trade Was a Loser For All Except the Most Wealthy Americans
• Time for Balanced Trade Not Free Trade
• Why US Multinationals Oppose Trump and Favor Clinton
• Inequalities of Wealth and Income Are Poorly Measured and Grossly Overstated
• Global Trade down 9% since 2014
• The Law of Diminishing Returns; How we Escaped Its Consequences  
• Trade Agreements Have Been an Economic Disaster for the USA
• A Summary of Modern Economic History
• An Economic Program for Stimulating Economic Growth -- we were published in the AmericanThinker this morning.
• Worldwide trade peaked in 2007
• "Free trade" Is Not supported By Economic Treory. Balanced Trade Is.
• Fed Official Says Fed's Quantitative Easing Policy Failed to Achieve Any of Its Recovery Objectives
• Globalization Has Been a Disaster for U.S. Manufacturing and U.S. Workers
• Gloabalization Has Been a Disaster for the U.S., Especially American Manufacturing Workers
• Economics Does Not Favor Free Trade; It Favors Balanced Trade.
• The Trade Agreements Negotiated by the U.S. Have Been a Disaster for U.S. Workers. and the U.S. Economy
• U.S. Trade Agreements Have Been an Economic Disaster for American Workers
• Globalization and Free trade Agreements Set the U.S. on the Road .to Decline
• What Is the Appropriate Tax Treatment of Capital Gains?
• What are the prospects of the US economy short-term and long-term?
• The Short-run and the Long-run in Economics and Politics
• Let's End Means-Tested Benefits -- we were published in American Thinker yesterday
• Billionaires Aren’t Dangerous; Those Who Would Prevent the Innovation that Creates Most Billionaires Are Dangerous
• Chinese stock market tumbling...
• The Russian economy will come roaring back
• Mike Lee gets it -- Watch his "Animal Farm" speech about the Cromnibus bill
• How the Minimum Wage Contributed to the Ferguson Riots
• Government Interference in the Economy Has Been an Unmitigated Disaster
• Who Is a Racist? A Conversation with Prof. Jack Anderson
• Government Is Responsible for the Sluggish Economy; What to Do About It
• Burger King Inversion Has No Effect on U.S. Revenues, But the Corporate Income Tax Should Be Abolished Regardless
• The End of the Chinese NEP
• What the U.S. Needs to Do to Grow the Economy
• The Outlook for the U.S. Economy is Continued Slow Recovery
• Republican Tax Policies Lack Economic and Political Sense
• Hold Mexico Responsible for the Invasion of Illegal Immigrants from Central America
• The Minimum Wage Should Not Apply to Teenagers or the Unskilled
• Minimum Wage Is a Barrier to Employment of Teenagers, Blacks, and Hispanics
• The Current Minimum Wage May Cost Teenagers and Blacks More than $29 Billion!
• What Produces Inequality of Income and Wealth? What Should Be Done About It?
• The Failure of Obama's, Prof.. Summers', and Prof. Bernanke's Keynesian Policies
• Why Economists Failed to Promote Recovery from the Great Recession 2008-2014
• A Mixed Socialist-Capitalist Economic System Does Not Work, Either
• Democrats Condemn Blacks to Live in Urban Ghettos
• End the Corporate Income Tax; Integrate the Corporate and Personal Income Taxes
• Hospital layoffs continuing
• How to Reduce Inequality of Income and Wealth
• The economic case against Obamacare -- Ray was published in Saturday's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Stop the Growth of Government Which Leads to Socialism Which Leads to Fascism
• Why Holder Didn't Prosecute Jon Corzine
• Why Holder Didn't Loot Goldman Sachs
• The JPMorgan Shakedown Slush Fund
• Holder shakes down JPMorgan
• Make the Shutdown of Undesirable Federal Departments and Agencies Permanent
• Trade deficits and stagnation
• Eliminate the Minimum Wage; Substitute a Revised Earned Income Tax Credit
• How the Corporate Income Tax Creates Billionaires and Punishes the Middle Class
• Real Tax Reform; Tax Corporations As Partnerships
• The Growth of State-Dominated Capitalism in the USA
• Blacks Do Poorly Under Obama's Stimulus Policies
• Making the Income Tax More Progressive Will Have Little Effect on the Distribution of Income and will Stifle Economic Growth
• II. Abolish the IRS As We Know It and Strengthen the Federal System
• A Better Way to Tax -- Ray was published in Saturday's Tribune Review
• Abolish the IRS As We Know It and Restore the Power of the States
• The Gods of the Copybook Headings are in Cyprus - We're published in today's American Thinker
• The Gods of the Copybook Headings are in Cyprus Now, and Coming Here Soon
• No Recovery From the Great Recession Is in Sight
• Pres. Obama Policies Are Leading to the Loss of More American Jobs
• More Than a Million Workers Lost Their Jobs Since Obama's Re-Election. Recession Is in Prospect
• Treat Corporations as Partnerships for Personal Income Taxation
• December 31, 2012, is a date that will live in economic infamy
• The Reverse-Santa-Claus Negotiations Continue
• A Genuine Tax Reform: Increased Use of the Estate Tax and Integration of the Corporate And Personal Income Tax
• Will this be Boehner's "Peace in Our Time" Moment?
• Sarah Palin: "We’ve Already Gone Over the Fiscal Cliff, Now It’s About How Hard We Hit Bottom"
• Fiscal Cliff: Negotiation Failure Could be the Best Option - we're published in today's American Thinker
• $260 billion in deficit cuts is not enough
• Mark Faber predicts economic future if House Republicans kick fiscal cliff down road
• The Fiscal Cliff is a Good Thing -- we're published in today's American Thinker
• Obama's Freudian Slip: He Wants to Export Jobs -- we're published in today's American Thinker
• The Debate
• The New Jobs and Trade Numbers are Related
• The U.S. Housing Bubble Wasn't Special
• The USA Must Follow Spain's Lead in Ending Wind and Solar Subsidies
• Does China Have a "New Economic Policy" for Dealing With Foreign-Owned Enterprises
• How Keynes would save the euro
• The Undiscussed Measures That Would Result in an Economic Boom
• Saving Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, and the U.S. From Bankruptcy
• U.S. Trade Deficit With China Grows While China’s Trade Surplus With World Diminishes – Is This Part of China’s World Strategy?
• Housing, Trade Deficits, and Global Warming Foolishness Caused the Recession: BalanceTrade and the Budget for Recovery
• Santorum's Federal Reserve position shows economic common sense
• The Economist Declares the US Economy Is Being Suffocated By Over-regulation
• The Revealing Moon Debate -- We're published in today's American Thinker
• Republican candidates revealed how they think during the moon debate
• Obama's SOTU: Still No Manufacturing Jobs -- we're published in today's American Thinker
• Long Term Predictions: CNG, manufacturing and house prices -- Listen to Howard on The American Entrepreneur with Ron Morris
• Real house prices will probably keep falling
• Romney's Theory about Why Companies and Countries Decline - We're published in today's American Thinker
• Romney’s Theory about Why Companies and Countries Decline
• Required Reading, Michael Lind's "The Cost of Free Trade"
• Balanced Trade Monetarism
• Two Great Economists Offer Solution to Restore U.S. Economic Growth
• An Economist's Look at Mythical Man-Made Global Warming(AGW)
• Obama's Jobs Act Wouldn't Work. Here's What Would -- We were published in today's American Thinker
• The Current Depression Is Caused By Fanatical Belief in Man-Made-Global-Warming
• Here Is a Real Jobs Plan in Contrast to Pres. Obama's No-Jobs Plan
• A return to manufacturing?
• How Economic Recovery Is Being Sabotaged By Bad Economic Policies
• Economic Stagnation: Have We Run Out of New Products? No, But We Are Outsourcing Their Production
• Morici: Obama's proposal for taxing U.S. oil companies would reduce U.S. economic growth
• How to Cut Government Expenditures and Create Millions of Jobs Doing It
• Government Leaders and Their Economic Advisers Have No Idea How to Create Jobs
• How to Restore America's Manufacturing Innovation -- we're published in this morning's American Thinker
• How to Encourage Manufacturing Innovation
• Keynesian Economists Offer No Solution to the Deepening Recession
• A Program for a Strong America? Not from these parties
• Our War On Drugs Has Cost Us the War in Afghanistan
• 9.1% unemployment shows that Obama's recovery & QE2 have failed
• My predictions from 2009 are coming true
• Prof. Krugman Gives Congress Bad Advice on How to Reduce Unemployment
• The Benefits Are Nil and the Costs Are Astronomical, the Environmental Leadership Is Trying To Bankrupt the U.S.
• Fiscal Timidity
• Ask Not for Whom the Trade Deficit Tolls. It Tolls for the American Worker and America’s Future.
• Why weaker dollar won't help exports very much
• House Republican Budget would Benefit the Poor -- We're published in today's American Thinker!
• Has the dollar started to collapse?
• "Green" Energy Is an Economic Disaster in the Making
• How to achieve Economic Recovery and Full Employment --Balance the Budget and Balance Trade
• American People the Big Losers in the Budget Deal
• Retired Gulf VP Charles Campbell nails US economic problems and their solution
• Richard Duncan names the current depression the "New Depression"
• How to Avoid the Coming Dollar Collapse
• 71% of Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling
• The Irresponsible Tax Compromise
• UN bureaucracy being expanded by Cancun Climate Conference
• Mort Zuckerman: Western decline caused by trade & budget deficits
• Roger Altman may replace Lawrence Summers
• Program for economic recovery and 2012 victory -- we're published in today's American Thinker
• Bernanke on China
• QE2 could becomeTitanic2
• Message from the People of Kentucky: America's Problem is Debt
• Caterpillar's New Chinese Factory ignites Voter Rage
• Why Summers Resigned
• Obama Did Create 3 Million Jobs -- In China (we're published in this morning's American Thinker)
• Paul Craig Roberts: Balance Trade and Budgets Now or Dollar Crash Soon
• Cato Institute's Richard W. Rahn only sees 2 alternatives for reviving economy
• Pres. Obama's $787 Billion Recovery Act Has Produced Few Sustainable Jobs
• Prof. Blinder Believes He and Obama are Keynesians But Keynes Would Disown Them
• Real Policies for a Sustained Economic Recovery
• Outsourcing Production Is Committing National Suicide, Says Andy Grove, Former Intel CEO
• The First Step for a Sustainable Economic Recovery -- Balanced Trade
• Why is the Fed no longer effective?
• Senate only passes a quarter of Obama's $266 billion stimulus
• World needs US taxpayer bailout - but Atlas is about to Shrug
• Are Data Problems Undermining U.S. Policymaking?
• The Greek Crisis Reveals the Fatal Weakness of the Euro and the Gold Standard
• Tom Goergen foresees the coming financial crisis
• Deficit Commission should address both deficits
• Why Financial Reform Now? Why Not a Bill That Creates Jobs?
• Congress Caused This Depression. Not Wall Street. Not the Banks
• Revaluing the Yuan Will Not Balance Our Trade with China; Tariffs Will.
• The Obama Administration's Agenda to Balance Trade
• Germany, Greece, the Euro, and the Gold Standard
• McCain's economic advisors cost him the Presidency and may cost him his Senate seat
• Ralph Gomory: Does America Need Manufacturing?
• Why There Has Been No Keynesian Multiplier
• Policies to Get the Economy Going
• Cost of treasury bailout of FNMA and Freddie MXC
• Obama raises stakes on his house price gamble
• Foreclosures.com: "House Prices Will Roar Back in 2009"
• Wall Street Journal's take on Bush economic mistakes
• Requiem to an Improvident Generation

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