OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 12, 2016—Express Employment Professionals released a new white paper today, staking out a position on whether to raise the minimum wage to $15. “Great Intentions. Bad Results. The Problem with a $15 Minimum Wage in America” draws…
Befitting their conservative outlook on the current political reality, the nation’s SAGE Cons – the 30 million spiritually active, governance engaged Christian conservatives – undeniably resent the federal government’s over-regulation of the nation’s businesses. They also lament the fact that…
For the past 100 years we have taught the “politics of slavery” to our young, but are now shocked because they have grown into ruthless bureaucrats and apathetic sheep. 1) We have taught our youth that 50% of the nation’s…
Sunday was the first day of May, a day we commonly refer to as May Day. And while the origins of the day can be traced to the beginnings of organized labor, in recent decades it has taken a decidedly…
One of the incontrovertible realities of the socialist do-gooders in Washington is that any legislation they pass has a direct cost, and a down-the-road indirect cost. Sometimes these indirect costs are the result of so-called unintended consequences, but in the…
The argument over trade and whether governments should allow it to be “free” goes back to the latter 18th, early 19th century economists, Adam Smith, David Ricardo and James Mill. They could be said to be the fathers of the…
Last fall I wrote that “our stock market is like the Titanic on April 15, 1912. It is living on borrowed time, and all the King’s men and horses are not going to be able to put this Keynesian Humpty…
