THE DAILY CALLER: The Great $50 Billion Flub

Obamacare cost estimates hide up to $50 billion per year.  Federal payments required by President Barack Obama’s health care law are being understated by as much as $50 billion per year because official budget forecasts ignore the cost of insuring many employees’ spouses and children, according to a new analysis. The result could cost the U.S. Treasury hundreds of   ... MORE

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Walter E Williams: Ignorance, Stupidity or Connivance?

The high cost of fueling envy and resentment. President Barack Obama has called for a luxury tax on corporate jets as a means to generate revenue to fight federal deficits. The president's economic advisers ought to be fired for not telling him that doing so is unwise and counterproductive. They might have already told him so, only to have the president say, "Look, I know you're  ... MORE

Mike Riggs: Moody's Sounds The Alarm On Student Loans

Student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt. A growing chorus of economists and educators think that the higher education industry will be America's next bubble. Easy credit, high tuition, and poor job prospects have resulted in growing delinquency and default rates on nearly $1 trillion worth of private and federally subsidized loans. Now the ratings agency ... MORE

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Heidi Harris: The Rat In Obama's Maze

Is someone leaving the building?  It goes without saying that President Obama has no grasp of even basic economics. Perhaps he should read Thomas Sowell’s excellent book of the same title, for starters. And it also goes without saying that everything he’s done since taking office has made the economic situation in the nation worse, whether you’re looking at actual job  ... MORE