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Video: Interview with Steve Forbes on America’s fiscal cliff

Aug. 13, 2012 By Brian Calle This is the second part of my interview with Steve Forbes, the owner of Forbes magazine and a former presidential candidate. He comments on America heading over a fiscal cliff.

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Student loan slavery

July 6, 2012 By John Seiler I tell youngsters all the time: Don’t go into debt for college! Not that they listen to me, any more than I listened to my elders when I was their age. At least when

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American Dream Goin’ South

May 22, 2012 By John Seiler People naturally move from depressed countries to thriving countries. That’s especially true when travel between the two countries is easy, as it is between the United States and Mexico. Because so many Mexicans have

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Greece suffers California’s future

May 1, 2012 By John Seiler Greece is leading the way for California — off a cliff. The two polities are similar: beautiful mediterranean climate, creative people, massively powerful government-worker unions, busted budgets, impending bankruptcy. Greece is just a little

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Brown Debt Gimmicks 'Balance' Budget

JUNE 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Most knowledgeable people realize that California’s debt emperor has no clothes. Even if the mainstream newspaper media continue to clothe the emperor in the robes of an all-wise Buddhist monk who has taken a

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Jim Rogers: Chainsaw Spending

John Seiler: Famed investor Jim Rogers has been warning for years that federal, state and local governments have been wasting way too much of the taxpayers’ money. The result: massive deficits at all levels of government, especially California, and pleas

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