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Prepping for the Financially Challenged: A One Month Survival Plan For Under $300 Tom Chatham March 12th, 2012 The American Dream Lost The following article has been generously contributed by Tom Chatham, author of the newly released book The American Dream Lost – Economic Survival Strategy for a New Paradigm. Many people are now waking up to the possibility that the future may not provide the great recovery we all expect it to be. They are begining to sense that something is wrong with the economy and it will not get better. Their first thought is the question, What do...

<p>The number is out, and it's HOT!</p> <p>PPI hs jumped 0.8%, well above the 0.2% analysts had expected.</p> <p>Core PPI, which excludes food and energy, was only up 0.2%, which is still above the 0.1% that analysts had expected.</p> <p>The culprit? Blame food and energy.</p>

Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt would both feel right at home in today's Washington. In an article in the London Telegraph, economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute suggest there are "troubling similarities" between the current administration's actions and those in the 1930s that sent the United States and much of the world spiraling into the Great Depression. Hoover and Roosevelt made four big mistakes: * Increasing government spending, running huge deficits, with the hope that the increased spending would give jobs to the unemployed. * Raising income taxes on...

Announcement:Watch me respond to Sen. Obama at 12:30pm ET today By Newt Gingrich As promised last week, I'm responding to Senator Obama's recent speech from Philadelphia with a speech at the American Enterprise Institute today. You can read more about the speech here. We just found out that C-SPAN 2 will be covering the speech, LIVE. You can watch it on your TV or at the c-span website, www.c-span.org.

I FIRST BEGUN TO SPEAK and write about a "New Era Economy" in 1996. By 1998, the Chicago Tribune had called me "Chicago's most prominent New Era economist." But my book on the subject, The New Era of Wealth, was not published until October 1999, just before the stock market peaked. My thesis, which may sound trite today, suggested that the U.S. was in a virtuous circle of wealth creation. A combination of technology, globalization, good fiscal policy, and stable monetary policy was boosting productivity dramatically. As a result, the economy could grow faster, with less inflation (possibly deflation), than...