It's time to stop worrying about the deficit - and start panicking about the debt. ...more

December 15, 2009

but not on the same scale. In Country A, employment has fallen more than 5 percent, and the unemployment rate has more than doubled. In Country B, employment has fallen only half a percent, and unemployment is only slightly higher than it was before the crisis. ...more

November 15, 2009

The number of buyers snapping up new homes dipped unexpectedly in September as the effects of a temporary tax credit for first-time owners started to wear off. ...more

October 29, 2009

In your editorial on health care ("Health care needs to be reformed," June 7) you state, "We don't want a nationalized system." Why not? In 2007, 62 percent of bankruptcies were due to medical bills. Of those, 75 percent had health insurance. This is the private, for-profit health insurance system you want to keep? ...more

June 11, 2009

This shouldn't surprise many Floridians, but the Sunshine State ranked 48th in the country in economic growth in 2008, according to new federal data. ...more

June 3, 2009

$603.5 billion Florida's real GDP for 2008, a drop of 1.6 percent from its 2007 total of $613.4 billion ...more

June 3, 2009

John B. Mooney of Hudson says President Barack Obama's critics should come up with alternatives to his policy, not just complain. ...more

March 11, 2009

Jim Lee of Tarpon Springs says the government cannot create jobs. This makes the government bailouts "boondoggles." ...more

February 7, 2009

The economy took a tumble in the summer that was worse than first thought as American consumers throttled back their spending by the most in 28 years, further proof the country is almost certainly in the throes of a painful recession. ...more

November 26, 2008

The National Federation of Independent Business maintains that over one-half of our GDP comes from small business, yet the government and the public have little sympathy for all of the mom-and-pop companies that routinely fail due to their inability to be profitable. Conversely, the thought of a giant, inefficient and unprofitable corporation or industry going bankrupt is more than our government can bear. ...more

November 22, 2008