Category Archives: Economy
How Obama Can Reduce Gas Prices By Summer
President Obama has taken a lot of flak about gas prices recently. Some have claimed the rise in gas prices are solely Obama’s fault. Critics point to the price of gas when Obama was sworn into office and the price … Continue reading
Christmas Is Coming
Christmas is coming. That means PZ will be off for a little while. My plan is to start hashing out this idea I have had for a long time. Once I get closer to completing work on it, I will … Continue reading
The Political Zealot On Facebook!
The Political Zealot is now on Facebook. As you can see, we have added a nifty Facebook box on the right hand side of the main page of the website where you can quickly ‘Like’ us on Facebook. This is … Continue reading
Obama’s Fair Shot Address Strikes Nerve In Conservatives
President Obama made a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas that is being called the ‘fair shot’ address. This address really struck a nerve in conservatives, and those in talk radio took to the airwaves and misconstrued what Obama really said. In … Continue reading
The Next Great Generation and HubPages Articles by The Political Zealot
Over the last several weeks I have been working to reach out to new media to bring more readers to The Political Zealot. I will now be contributing to The Next Great Generation and have started writing ‘Hubs’ on HubPages. … Continue reading
Showdown On Wall Street Postponed!
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an announcement this week to the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He said that on Friday at 7:00am, they would have to leave the park so that it could be cleaned, but that they … Continue reading
Hurricane Irene A Bust
Looks like hurricane Irene is a bust. The damage was nothing near what many thought could have happened. Obviously this is a good thing. Already people are lamenting about how the media and the government got the story wrong. How … Continue reading
QE3 Via Hurricane Irene?
Could Hurricane Irene provide the equivalent of quantitative easing 3 (QE3) that our economy needs to get out of our downslump or will the damage and repair costs send us into another recession? While Bernake is expected to speak today … Continue reading
Deregulators in the Super Committee
Why did I bring up Glass-Steagall yesterday? When the announcements for the super committee were made I did some digging into each candidate. When I saw that Pat Toomey was one of the people responsible for the repeal of Glass-Steagall … Continue reading
Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
I am a big proponent of deregulation in many circumstances. Over regulation definitely has it’s drawbacks, but there are many places where regulation makes sense. In the 1930′s, after the Great Depression began and the stock market was in shambles … Continue reading
