Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has electrified the race by choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. In the last day, the two have drawn big, excited crowds and have gotten rave reviews from conservative talking heads in the … More…
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More Reasons Why Fixing the Debt Crisis Is Hard
The drumbeat of worry is growing as the US approaches the fiscal cliff, when the Bush tax cuts and Obama payroll tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts kick in just as Congress debates extending the debt ceiling yet again.… More…
Domestic Spending Already Has Been Cut–a Lot
When you listen to former Gov. Mitt Romney and other Republicans on the campaign trail, you’d think federal spending is out of control and still growing. And, in a curious bit of jiu-jitsu, some even say that’s holding back the … More…
Disability’s Boom Creates a Quiet Crisis
Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee, led by Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, have released some disturbing statistics on the number of people who collect Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, benefits.
That number has been growing so fast that … More…
The Curse of the Bush Tax Cuts
Updated July 15, 2012
It’s the summer of 2012, President George W. Bush has been out of office for 3 ½ years, and the biggest issue of the presidential campaign is whether to keep his signature tax cuts, which were … More…
Krugman Vs. Rogoff on Austerity and Growth
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman doesn’t suffer fools—or Republicans—gladly, especially if their arguments cut close to his deeply held Keynesian beliefs.
That’s why he’s engaged in brass-knuckles academic guerilla warfare with maybe the fastest rising … More…
Risk Taker Obama Doubles Down on Bain
Forget Steven Rattner, former Rep. Harold Ford Jr, or even Newark Mayor Cory Booker, all Democrats who have criticized President Obama’s campaign ads against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital.
Forget the way … More…
A Surprising New Ally of Fiscal Reform
Over the weekend, the Huffington Post ran an extraordinary item that could be a game changer if Washington ever gets its act together to even discuss serious fiscal reform.
The news site reported that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—yes, Nancy … More…
Investors Give the President a Big Thumbs Down
The results of the first MoneyShow.com®/The Independent Agenda® Investor Class Poll are in, and they’re bad, bad news for President Obama.
More than three quarters of the 1,295 investors polled would vote for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney if the … More…
Romney Will Dance to the Tea Party’s Tune
A newly energized Mitt Romney hit the campaign trail, brimming with confidence, the travails of the horrible Republican primary race now behind him.
“Start packing,” the former Massachusetts governor told President Obama in an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC … More…
Howard R. Gold
I’m an award-winning business and financial journalist and an independent-minded citizen who is deeply concerned about the challenges facing our country. That’s why I started The Independent Agenda. "
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