The Chickens of Globalization Come Home to Roost

Friday - July 20, 2012 at 1:02 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Mitt Romney is today the beneficiary of some desperate counsel from alarmed Republicans on how to escape the snare in which he has found himself. Democrats are charging that Mitt was still chairman and CEO of Bain Capital between 1999 and 2002, when the company was advising some of America's premier outsourcers. The facts are in dispute. But the evidence seems on Continue reading...

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Casino Capitalists Playing With Fire

Tuesday - July 10, 2012 at 2:07 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Comes now news from across the pond that executives at one of the world's most respected banks, Barclays, rigged Libor. Even the venerable Bank of England is apparently being investigated. For sports fans, this is like fixing the Super Bowl or doping a horse in the Derby. But it is rather more serious. For the London Interbank Offered Rate is the benchmark interest Continue reading...

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Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock

Tuesday - June 19, 2012 at 1:31 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customers -- and to support more good jobs here at home." Thus did the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative rhapsodize about the potential of our new trade Continue reading...

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As the Boomers Head for the Barn

Tuesday - May 15, 2012 at 12:21 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in the labor force, Continue reading...

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Vulture Capitalism or Populist Demagoguery?

Tuesday - January 17, 2012 at 12:52 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan "They're vultures that are sitting out there on the tree limb, waiting for a company to get sick, and then they swoop in ... eat the carcass ... and ... leave the skeleton." So Rick Perry colorfully characterized the private equity firm Bain Capital, once run by Mitt Romney. How did Bain prosper? Says Perry: "These companies ... come in and loot the people's Continue reading...

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The View From Martha’s Vineyard

Thursday - August 18, 2011 at 11:37 pm

By Patrick J. Buchanan As he and his daughters bicycle around the summer playground of the Northeastern elite, Martha's Vineyard, President Obama is steadily bleeding away both the support of the nation and that of his most loyal constituency. Several times, his approval rating in Gallup's daily tracking poll has sunk to 39 percent, with disapproval reaching 54 percent. Support for his Continue reading...

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We’re All Greeks Now

Friday - July 15, 2011 at 12:58 am

By Patrick J. Buchanan Departing for New Hampshire in November 2010, Sen. Judd Gregg, the fiscal conservative President Obama wanted in his Cabinet, blurted an inconvenient truth: "This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get ... fiscal policy (under control), we're Greece." The remark was regarded as hyperbole. But Gregg had a point. For though Greece, measured by Continue reading...

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