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American Job Market Permanently Altered 2  


When workers begin re-entering the workforce, they are going to find that in many cases the positions they once held are simply not around anymore.

Wall Street's Revolving Door +  


Economist and former Vice Presidential candidate Pat Choate discusses his new book Saving Capitalism: Keeping America Strong and outlines why the intimate relationship between Wall Street and Washington needs to end.

Time for the U.S. to Join the Value-Added Tax Bandwagon 2  


The value-added tax allows nations to build revenue through taxation, and thus guarantees their financial stability, but it builds revenue on foreigners as well as domestic residents. In the U.S. we tax our own citizens and then ask foreign countries to loan us the difference.

Costs of Alternative Energy 1  


For the cost of building a small wind farm one could reasonably build several standard coal-burning power plants, and likely produce more electricity overall.

Benefits of Our Own Value Added Tax 2  


The VAT rewards exports while largely blocking imports. This guarantees domestic demand for domestically produced goods, thereby ensuring that the taxpaying citizens are gainfully employed.

03/14/2010

The U.S. has done little to maintain its place of prominence in manufacturing as the rest of the world caught up and eventually surpassed us. Now, we may add solar manufacturing to our growing list of losses.

03/14/2010

America's dependence on foreign countries to produce green technologies may undermine this recovery strategy.

03/14/2010

A bipartisan group of legislators representing a wide array of states, has introduced legislation in the House that would repeal the failed North American Free Trade Agreement.