David Post

Tax reform is like birthdays. They come around every year with the promises of money and gifts. The current flavor ...

Why is age 65 the retirement age?

Legend has it that when Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany in the ...

Are we in a double dip recession?

Economists hedge their bets using percentage. Most suggest a 30 percent chance we ...

The Top 10 list of why the debt ceiling debate was a big joke (and this is no joke):

1. The ...

Does the government spend too much? Probably.

Are taxes too low? Probably.

Is there an easy or quick fix? Absolutely ...

By the 1980s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union together had amassed 25,000 nuclear warheads aimed at each other. Carl Sagan, the people’s scientist, compared it to two people standing in a room the size of a football field filled up to their chins with gasoline, each holding 10,000 matches and each threatening to light one. Today, the Debt Ceiling debate is MAD.

The economy seems to be counter-intuitive. Good is bad, and bad is good. Why is the slope up a hill steeper than the slope down a hill? Seems like it should be the same, but it never is.

For the past sixty years, we have debated whether health care is a moral issue, that is, whether we as a nation have a moral obligation to provide health care to everyone or whether each individual is responsible for his or her own health care. Except for the United States, every democracy on earth believes it has a moral obligation to provide health care to its entire citizenry.

Don’t mess with my health care!! Throw out Obamacare!!!

A majority of the House of Representatives voted to do ...

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault said as he was pocketing ...

Wall Street can do it. Wall Street owes us. After all, we’re in a national financial mess because of ...

A one-mile high stack of dollar bills is about $1.4 million. A billion dollars would be about 70 miles ...

My company is a small business. I think. We have approximately 25 employees. Even in our hometown Salisbury, North Carolina ...