Freedom isn't free is more catchy, but misses my broader point.

America isn't free. But we like to pretend that it is. We hate to even approach the premise, but here goes.

1) Having a republic requires an informed electorate. While an autocracy (like China) gets results much, much, much...

Donald Trump is the living embodiment of everything wrong with politics today. I know a decent amount about both things. I filmed with Trump in 2006 when I was on his reality show, The Apprentice. I lived and breathed politics when I ran for Congress in 2010. Having spent the...

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Translation: We're releasing this statement after the U.S. stock market closes. We don't want you to see a cute chart on CNBC of the markets dropping as everyone realizes just how little we give a shit about actually doing our jobs. See -- we're...

When you're talking about presidents, it should be declarative. They should own things. Think 'Bush's War' for Iraq. Or, I guess, as I've now read 'Obama's War' for Afghanistan.

So, I'm declarative here. Obama's failure.

I've wanted to write this for a long time. It really built up over 2010....

There's a common question on the minds of most Americans these days: How did things get so bad? A real unemployment rate of 17%, a record number of home foreclosures, borrowing billions from China so we can buy the things from them that we...

Jean Schmidt: No to Bedbugs, Yes to Unemployment

Last week Congress finally began to take action against illegal Chinese trade policies that have devastated the American manufacturing base. For well over a decade, the Chinese government has been blatantly subsidizing the costs of Chinese manufacturing to create an...

In the past few weeks the media has been abuzz with stories about China's currency manipulation. Given the stratospheric unemployment rate and bulging trade deficit, focusing on China's questionable trade practices is long overdue.

Mercantilism. That's the term for the policy path that China has been following. Mercantilism...

Let's acknowledge the real cause of high unemployment... and get to work addressing it.

It's probably not wise for a candidate to pick a fight with a noted economist, but I had a strong reaction to a post this week from by Professor J. Bradford DeLong titled, "The Varieties...

Sadly, each passing day brings with it more depressing economic news. Today's latest is that housing sales dropped 27% in July, the weakest showing in 15 years. That the housing market remains a complete disaster, common knowledge to most of us, appears to still be a secret to...