Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...
Is the federal government's history of enormous deficits proof that it can keep up the borrowing? Some people think so, and legislators sure act that way. Federal debt held by the public now equals the size of the annual economy – and is growing. Yet investors continue buying ...
The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here. My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into a ...
I've always argued that the easiest way for families to gauge the health of the economy is to check the daily gas price. Drivers see the 50-foot-high signs in every community in America. They stare us right in the face. I call it the affordability index. In recent weeks, gas prices ...
Do you worry that you're being watched? If you drive, you probably are. My new video covers the cameras that photograph the backs of millions of cars. A company called Flock has 80% of that market. Flock's CEO says the goal is to "eliminate crime." But lots of people hate ...
With the midterm elections nearing, Democrats are surging ahead in the polls, offering rhetoric about a "failed Republican economy." But the facts show that the first two years of Republican control have produced impressive economic gains, especially for minorities, women and workers ...
