Subtract Mexican Aid by the Amount Illegal Aliens Send Back Home

Some believe there are many as 24 million illegal aliens and illegal immigrants from Mexico in the United States of America who have come over the U.S. Mexican border. If this number is true then we have a real problem, but even other estimates put the number of illegal aliens at 12 million plus 6 million overstayed visas.

Bernanke Comments on Potential Interest Rate Hikes

At an international conference on Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised that inflation will be fought by the central bank.

Economic Situation of China

Over the last 25 years China’s economy has drastically changed. They went from a centrally planned system that relied heavily upon international trade, to a system that is now more market oriented.

Prospect And Analysis Of China's Future Economy Growth

China will become the world's safest and largest investment economy in times to come given the following factors: huge market potential, rich labour resources etc. This article gives prospect and analysis of China economy in the next 15 years.

Mexico City Earthquake Soon!

How long until the big Mexico City Quake? We all know it is way over due and many of us remember the last one in 1985. Can you imagine a city now with some 20 million people in it reduced to rubble in a matter of minutes and after shocks preventing rescue and causing even more destruction?

Tunes from Five-Mile Town

The annual bluegrass festival just concluded at Five-Mile Town. The tunes were reminiscent of a bygone era in America; an era where native sons had a hard-won, bright future. An era that seems to be slipping away.

Explaining The Unemployment Rate: Facts and Myths

This article explains some of the facts and myths about the unemployment rate.

Over Taxation Still Exists; Look at the Gasoline Taxes Sometime!

Sure, we have had tax cuts and this is one major great thing that the Bush administration has done, no matter how you feel about their other policies they have cut taxes. The government needs to go on a diet just like most Americans who are overweight.

Heating Oil Prices

Refining petroleum or crude oil produces heating oil. Residential use for heating accounts for most heating oil consumption; close to 8 percent of American homes use heating oil.

Iraq War Costs Will Exceed 500 Billion By 2007

Now that was certainly an expensive endeavor to take out Saddam Hussein and a couple of terrorists sons was it not? Indeed we will have spent over 500 Billion Dollars in that war by the end of 2007 and that my friends is excessive

Foreign Control of U.S. Interstates Encouraged by Feds

Eisenhower was prompted to persuade the nation’s people to build the interstate highway system, as a matter of national security. Yet, as funding from federal gas taxes and state user fees have fallen behind the inflated costs associated with road construction and maintenance, more and more state governors and lawmakers no longer see the operation of roads solely as a public responsibility.

Home Builder Confidence Declines Again

Builder confidence for new single family homes has continued its decline in July.

Government Partnerships; Can They Help with BioFuel Initiatives?

Is the government up to the task of helping America break her addiction to foreign oil? What can government agencies do to work together to help us grow our own fuel and get it to market? Can the government or will the government streamline the over regulation which is hampering innovation in the marketplace, which is probably the only way we will break our addiction to foreign oil? What can the Department of Transportation do to help us break our addiction to foreign oil?