John Brown for the Daily Bell 
While it may not be a surprise that the Republicans are preparing to yield on their vow to oppose tax hikes, it should raise investor concerns the world over that an upcoming budget agreement will likely involve a Congressional surrender of its authority to set ...

Read more: Republican Sellout Invites Stagflation

[Editor's note: Bernanke has further loosened the Fed's monetary stance. As economist Frank Shostak explains, this action is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how wealth is created and can only make things worse.]

On Wednesday December 12, 2012 Fed policy makers announced that they will ...

Read more: Bernanke Loosens Up

While President Obama and Speaker John Boehner are wrestling with whether or not they will agree to raise taxes, United Nations delegates partying in Doha, Qatar are planning to impose a new kind of tax on Americans. UN conferees have been discussing how they can start a global tax that would hit ...

Read more: The UN Wants to Tax Us, Too

 The Employment Picture for Less-Educated Workers

Of the estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, seven to eight million are thought to be holding a job.¹Rather than enforce immigration laws and encourage them to return home, President Obama and some in Congress have ...

Read more: Amnesty and the U.S. Labor Market

 Editor's Note: It seems this holiday season, instead of presents from Santa's sleigh, we'll be showered with dollars from Bernanke's helicopter. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced plans to spend $45 billion a month to buy bonds, and to keep a key interest rate near zero until ...

Read more: How the Fed Rules and Inflates

 With nary a glimmer of hope that economic sense will supplant political expedience, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research Founder Porter Stansberry expects rampant inflation to roar in once the cost of capital rises. How is he preparing himself? Stansberry tells The Gold Reporthe ...

Read more: Porter Stansberry: Gold and Real Estate Are My Hedges for the Fiscal Cliff

Abstract: Unless Congress and the President act promptly and wisely, sequestration under the Budget Control Act (BCA) will undermine military readiness, and the nearly $500 billion tax increase starting on January 1, 2013, will greatly harm an already weak economy. However, this fiscal cliff can ...

Read more: Saving the American Dream: The Fiscal Cliff and Beyond

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CEI's Battered Business Bureau: The Week In Regulation
This week in the world of regulation:

• Last week, 88 new final rules were published, up from 32 ...

  Read more: Regulations Squeeze Small Business as EPA Pumps out 15 New Regs