Remember when Barack Obama said his cap-and-trade program would bankrupt the coal industry? As Gary Bauer points out, America gets half of its electricity from coal. President Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants a European-style gasoline tax,...

What’s not to like about the Copenhagen-gate global warming confab? As columnist Deroy Murdock points out, the treaty they are working up merely would require “transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries (that’s us) to...

Apparently Chapman economists didn’t teach the governor or the controller good economics, so they say jokingly. Chapman predicts California will be 17 billion dollars in the hole next year. This comes on the heals of President Obama announcing he...

Housing is the next topic at the conference. In the height of the housing bubble mortgage payments were almost 50 percent of the home owner’s income. Today it is just below 3O percent, making homes much more affordable. High end housing market has...

Shifting gears from the national economy to our local OC economy, the focus is on jobs. For local recessions the best, and perhaps only gauge, is employment. (For national recessions 5 areas are taken into consideration: GDP, employment, real personal...