Jobless Claims Are Back Up. Where Are the Jobs?

The TEA PARTY ECONOMIST Ron Paul's original staff economist, Dr. Gary North! Saturday, June 1, 2013

WEEK IN REVIEW: The top stories of the week Jobless Claims Are Back Up. Where Are the Jobs? First-time jobless claims hit 354,000 last week. The figure had been dropping early in May. The media had started running articles on happy days are here again. Like Ginger Rogers in Gold Diggers of 1933, their song was premature. This also was bad news. More people were collecting jobless benefits: up by 69,000. The total [...] READ MORE A Man Who Shot a Killer Dog Is Fined $1,000. Unregistered Gun. In Washington, D.C., three pit bulls attacked an 11-year-old boy. A neighbor went into his home, got a 9mm pistol, and shot one of the dogs. The police heard the shots and came to investigate. They shot the other two dogs. Then they arrested the private shooter. It seems that he had not registered his [...] READ MORE JFK on Fascism: It Was OK for Germany and Italy, He Thought. Like a lot of American liberals in the 1930s, John F. Kennedy thought that fascism worked just fine. This fact has recently received brief attention in the British Leftist newspaper, The Independent. There has been a blackout on the story in the mainstream media. The memory hole is still deep, although the Internet is keeping [...] READ MORE Letter to Fox News Employees from the Boss: “The McCarthy Era.” Roger Aisles heads Fox News. Here is an extract from his letter. “The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. [...] READ MORE Will an Export Tax Restore True Free Enterprise? Gary North’s Reality Check This is a recent discussion between the Export Tariff Guy and the Free Trade Guy. ETG: What this country needs is an export tariff. FTG: How would it work? ETG: Every exporter would pay a tariff on the retail price of everything it exports. FTG: So, it’s a sales tax on [...] READ MORE