American Shareholders RSS http://www.americanshareholders.org en-us admin@americanshareholders.org This is the RSS Feed for American Shareholders. Obama’s Policies Lead Only to Pessimism among Business Leaders http://www.americanshareholders.org/obamas-policies-lead-only-pessimism-among-a2918 There need no longer be any speculation about how businesses view the present economic climate. As Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center has indicated,     “The above chart ill... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:37:44 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/obamas-policies-lead-only-pessimism-among-a2918 Obamacrats Pursue Policies That Keynesians Would Spurn http://www.americanshareholders.org/obamacrats-pursue-policies-keynesians-spurn-a2917 As much as scores of economists have refuted much of the framework of Keynesian economics, many of its tenets regarding the role of the government in stimulating the economy counter-cyclically remain ... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:57:52 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/obamacrats-pursue-policies-keynesians-spurn-a2917 Financial “Reform:” the End of Free Checking http://www.americanshareholders.org/financial-reform-end-free-checking-a2916 When most Americans think of financial reform, they envision some sort of abstract change in rules to cut the profits of cigar-smoking investment bankers jetting across the globe in private airplanes,... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:26:37 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/financial-reform-end-free-checking-a2916 Obama Debt Commissioner Calls for a VAT and Its Correspondingly Crippling Effects http://www.americanshareholders.org/obama-debt-commissioner-calls-vat-correspondingly-a2915 While Barack Obama ostensibly created the Simpson-Bowles debt commission to address the presently untenable fiscal condition of the US, the latent motivation recently emerged when Erskine Bowles, co-c... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST http://www.americanshareholders.org/obama-debt-commissioner-calls-vat-correspondingly-a2915 American Youth Wrongly Expect Nothing from Social Security http://www.americanshareholders.org/american-youth-wrongly-expect-nothing-social-a2914 As a USA Today/Gallup poll reported this morning, “Three-fourths of those 18 to 34 don't expect to get a Social Security check when they retire.” Thankfully, those 3 out of 4 young adults ... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:01:45 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/american-youth-wrongly-expect-nothing-social-a2914 Lawmakers Skewed Priorities in Proprietary Trading http://www.americanshareholders.org/lawmakers-skewed-priorities-proprietary-trading-a2913 As part of the Frank-Dodd bill for financial “reform,” financial institutions that benefit from government protections like federal insurance of deposits will be restricted from investing ... Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:45:44 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/lawmakers-skewed-priorities-proprietary-trading-a2913 A Unified GOP Congress Benefits Both Shareholders and Workers http://www.americanshareholders.org/unified-gop-congress-benefits-both-shareholders-a2912 ASA has discovered a notable correlation between which party controls Congress and the changes in both shareholder wealth over time and unemployment in each year. W... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:07:14 EDT http://www.americanshareholders.org/unified-gop-congress-benefits-both-shareholders-a2912