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Data Point – Hispanics making economic gains

Emphasis mine: For the fourth consecutive year, Hispanics increased their rate of home ownership, reaching a rate of 47.1%. In 2018, Latinos added 362,000 homeowners which is the highest number of owner households added for Latinos since 2005. In 2017, Hispanics saw the third consecutive year of income growth and the highest of any demographic. … Read more

New Study Shows Pro-Growth Policies are Working

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 15, 2019 CONTACT: Greg Moore, GMoore@afphq.org New Study Shows Pro-Growth Policies are Working New Hampshire has highest ever ranking in new ALEC Rich States, Poor States study CONCORD, NH – Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire on Monday praised elected officials who helped enact pro-growth policies that led to New Hampshire’s highest ranking … Read more

The American Jubilee

What follows is distilled from the beginning of Porter Stansberry’s book, The American Jubilee. The book starts with an assessment of the financial situation of America. If it gets your attention; it is inexpensive, readable as economic assessments go and thought provoking. Whether you come away thinking this is all wrong or convinced it is … Read more

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Fast Fact The Media Might Have Missed – 2019 Start is Best for US Stocks in Nearly 30 years

The last thing you probably heard about the stock market was the December to Remember. US Stocks took a beating after the Fed (The wicked, bad, Naughty Fed) decided it was time to screw president Trump’s economic recovery tighten monetary policy. I’m not saying it doesn’t need to happen. But that was not a great time unless you happen to be Ebeneezer Scrooge or on some Trump hater’s speed dial.

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Eco-Socialism

DISQUS Doodlings Part 2: “If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them”

“If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them,” explained Steve Valk from the Citizens Climate Lobby. Yeah, these folks think just SO highly of their fellow citizens.  Yet another Jonathan Gruber type; just outright lie to folks in order to fulfill your political … Read more

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DISQUS Doodlings: “If we want to make better decisions or do things in our society’s self-interest, we need to be tricked into doing them”

Yeah, Treehugger time again: “Environmentalists aren’t voting. This plan could help”. Environmentalists are shockingly bad at voting. During the 2014 midterm, only 21 percent of environmentalist registered voters actually voted, compared to 44 percent of general registered voters. Environmental problems are, by their very “nature,” large-scale problems that require large-scale solutions. That’s why voting is so important — the government … Read more

Picking Up NH’s Welcome Mat to Business

What’s the issue? HB623 and SB 135 establish the rates of the business profits tax (BPT) and the business enterprise tax (BET) for taxpayer tax years ending on or after December 31, 2019 and for subsequent tax years, and repeals rate reductions effective in 2021. These are one of the more meaningful pieces of legislation … Read more

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Data Point – Income Inequality?

..I mean, are Americans really no better off than they were during the late 1970s? I hear that stated quite frequently. But this chart of real income growth tells a different story. Please note that all the lines have been headed higher. Also note the 79 percent gain for the bottom 20 percent in post-transfer/tax … Read more

Treehugger time – I think you’ll know where this one went

“Tell me again why it should be legal for an employer to pay a wage that doesn’t cover living expenses? Freedom to exploit is freedom to kill, and it does.”

That was a comment, in part” from Annie Cass from a post “3 concepts from ‘Your Money or Your Life‘ that blew my mind” about thriftiness:

  1. Your hourly wage isn’t your true hourly wage.
  2. It’s crucial to track every single cent you earn, spend, and save.
  3. Savings are more than just savings.

Now, I don’t necessarily agree with some of the basic premises but it did have some good information.  But of course, Cass comes with the Marxist screed:

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NARAL says Restricting Abortion Access “Harms Children”

I don’t know where you land on the spectrum of life before birth. Perhaps you agree that life begins at conception, or maybe you think it starts at some point that could never have been arrived at without conception. It’s your logic, not mine. But that’s not the argument I’m here to debate. Wherever you are in … Read more

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