Textbook Case: How Government Can Create A Depression

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  December 9th at 05:22 AM  | 

Have you ever heard of Republic Windows And Doors? Unless you live on the North Side of Chicago, you probably haven’t. But they’re at the heart of what is becoming a textbook case in government overreach and willingness to interfere in private business dealings. And no less than the Man of Destiny himself, Barack Obama, has waded into this swamp, with both feet. Republic is | Read More »

Let’s Try This Another Way: The Bleeding Begins

By: Francis Cianfrocca (Diary)  |  September 15th at 06:15 AM  | 

As I described here, this is the weekend that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve decided to stop bailing everyone out. Secretary Paulson has been hinting for weeks now that we have to let capitalism work the way God intended it to. Which means: if you screw up, you die. This is what we free-market conservatives have been saying we wanted all along, folks. We’ll | Read More »