With three months of continuous protesting, the riots in Ukraine are playing out with the typical high drama of Russian politics. Many Ukrainians want the Ukraine to move closer to Europe, while the rest...
In the days before the 2014 State of the Union, the internet exploded with speculation over what Obama would cover in his address. One hot button topic was the expected use of executive orders to further...
David M. Walker, the Comptroller General of the United States from 1998 to 2008, stopped by campus this week to talk about the U.S. debt. His talk follows on the tails of The Can Kick Back’s college...
Food stamps are a popular topic in this column (recently, they were covered here and in more detail, here). Food stamps are a good choice for a column on economic policy—there’s a lot of data, they’re...
News today is two things: Miley Cyrus and the government shutdown. Luckily for you, I’m going to give you a respite from the two. Today is about consumer confidence.
Consumer confidence has been a...
It started with the election debates, disappeared for a few months, and now it’s back: the argument over the future of SNAP has resumed.
This past Thursday, the Republican led House voted to cut food...
In wake of the recent mass shootings, the phrase “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” has been tossed around like political confetti by guns rights activists. Proponents of this kind of thinking...
Remember the old Mastercard commercials? You had something for $X and something for $Y (ideally, these were paid for by your hypothetical Mastercard), and the combination of these culminated in a priceless...
Anyone who has tuned into the news recently has noticed the fiscal cliff. From the way politicians and pundits describe it, the United States is hurtling towards the edge. Like the chicken scene from Rebel...
With the election excitement over and our country hurtling towards a fiscal cliff, it doesn’t seem like there is much to give thanks for in the current U.S. economy. Hurricane Sandy devastated areas...
First off: no one is going to fire Big Bird [1]. Furthermore, Obama has not doubled the deficit (it's down from what he inherited) [2], 47% of Americans don't pay income taxes [3], no one on the ballot...
Arianna Huffington is a smart woman. Say what you will about the Huffington Post: it's still popular, still profitable, and still provides news. With this in mind, imagine my surprise when she spat this...
