Author Archives: Gerard Francis Lameiro

LANDSLIDE – Planned Release in 2012

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 2, 2012
Happy New Year! This year, 2012, should be a historic year because of the elections on November 6, 2012. My latest book, LANDSLIDE, about the elections and the economy has a planned release in early 2012.  As you can probably guess, I’m forecasting an electoral landslide.  I’m also predicting where the economy will be headed in 2013 [...]
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Welcome to the New Website!

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: April 6, 2011
My new website with a new IP address is now up and running.  I hope to be blogging again in the near future.  If you want to get the blog feed from this website, you will need to subscribe using the button on the sidebar or using the link: http://gerardlameiro.com/feed .  Of course, the blog [...]
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Reminder – Update – Important Note to Blog Readers and Website Visitors

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: April 4, 2011
This website (and blog) are now scheduled to be taken down for about an hour on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, to make some needed changes.  My understanding is that the IP address of the website will change at that time.  However, the plan is to keep the domain name, GerardLameiro.com, the same. IMPORTANT – I also understand [...]
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Update – Important Note to Blog Readers and Website Visitors

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: March 29, 2011
This website (and blog) are now scheduled to be taken down for about an hour on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, to make some needed changes.  My understanding is that the IP address of the website will change at that time.  However, the plan is to keep the domain name, GerardLameiro.com, the same. IMPORTANT – I also understand [...]
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Important Note to Blog Readers and Website Visitors

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: March 28, 2011
This website (and blog) are scheduled to be taken down for about an hour on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, to make some needed changes.  My understanding is that the IP address of the website will change at that time.  However, the plan is to keep the domain name, GerardLameiro.com, the same. IMPORTANT – I also understand [...]
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Economic Prosperity vs. Economic Mediocrity – What will America Choose?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 31, 2011
As food prices continue to soar in our supermarkets, as gasoline prices continue to skyrocket at the pumps, as the housing market continues to sputter, and as unemployment continues to be very high – around 9% to 10%, have you ever wondered why?  What has happened to the American economy?  Must the American economy continue to stagnate?  Are America’s [...]
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Does Helping the Planet Hurt the Poor?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 24, 2011
This week The Wall Street Journal poses an important question: “Does Helping the Planet Hurt the Poor?”  It provides two different answers by two different authors with distinctly contrary opinions.  Peter Singer, professor of Bioethics at Princeton, answers: “No, if the West Makes Sacrifices.”  Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist”  responds in contrast: “Yes, if We Listen to Green [...]
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Bailouts or Bankruptcy – How Can America Help Financially Troubled States?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 18, 2011
In an important op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal this week, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor David Skeel takes on the issue of financially troubled states such as California, New York, and Illinois.  California, for example, faces a potential state budget deficit of $20 Billion in the next 18 months, along with state pension funds whose underfunding exceeds $500 Billion.  What can we do [...]
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Is Economic Freedom Necessary for Prosperity? New Data Says Yes!

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 12, 2011
Once again, economists and others can see the relationship between economic freedom and prosperity by reviewing the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom released today by The Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation.  In a powerful article in The Wall Street Journal, Terry Miller, Director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at Heritage, [...]
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The Constitution, Congress, Individual Liberty, and Prosperity – Yes, They are All Related!

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: January 4, 2011
Roger Pilon, VP of Legal Affairs at the Cato Institute, has an excellent article in The Wall Street Journal today on the Constitution, Congress, and individual liberty.  It shows the path America has taken … from limited government that protects individual liberty under the Constitution … to big government that largely ignores the Constitution.  I would [...]
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