
Union Ideology Is Not As Far To The Left As It Seems
I find that the national unions’ thought processes are at odds with their original goals. After spending about three decades viewing the ups and downs, I am of the opinion that the need for unions is real, More...
The Federal Reserve and Parasitic Capitalism
“Gentlemen, … You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will More...
America’s Education System: Producing the Financially Illiterate
One by-product of our nanny state and the ineffective education system is that people have no incentive to learn about financial issues. The most rudimentary financial concepts are foreign to many of our citizens. More...
Glenn Beck Is Crazy About Common Core
Glenn Beck is crazy. He is a right wing conspiracy theory wackjob. At least that is how many progressives prefer to label him. But the one thing you have to give Beck credit for, whether you like him or not, is More...
Christmas for Comrades
Mike Ruffing is a contributor to The Brenner brief. His columns appear every Thursday. Are you in the Christmas Spirit yet, Comrades? Given the onslaught of depressing news and developments out of Washington D.C., More...
One Man’s Quest to Preserve the American Dream
Thomas Peterffy came in to the world in precarious circumstances, and has fought his way to success ever since. He was born in 1944 in Budapest, Hungary. This was not your average birth – he was born in the More...






















