by Steven Waechter
Last month, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference organizers themselves have given the conference the nickname of Rio+20. This is because twenty years ago, in 1992, the United Nations Conference on...
by Steven Waechter
The annual report of the Social Security Trustees has been out for a few days now, and the news was bad on its face; the Social Security Trust Fund is now expected to be depleted by 2033, three or four years earlier than had been previously thought. This means that...
by Steven Waechter
I recently heard a radio commercial urging me to contact various members of Congress to voice my support for tax credits connected to the wind energy industry. On a lark, I went to the Iowa Legislature website and searched active bills for the word “wind,†and...
by Steven Waechter
If you look at the weekly price chart for either gold or silver for the week ending January 27, 2012, you can make out a distinct “J†shape in prices of both metals. Tuesday the prices were suppressed, and then on Wednesday they spiked upward. You can actually...
by Steven Waechter
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom…..And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’...