This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

In my new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I argue that the first step in defusing the bomb, and averting the coming bankruptcy of America, is to restore America’s world leading economic prosperity. Only another economic boom can hope to generate enough revenue to finance essential continuing obligations. And only another boom can reduce dependency sufficiently to enable us to make the necessary spending cuts to reduce the overwhelming deficits, debt and other liabilities that threaten the […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2011 on Townhall.com.

The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will explode the American Dream if we don’t disarm it.

But it is not too late to reverse course and avert the coming bankruptcy of America. That will require fundamental structural reforms of all levels of government, and our most politically sensitive entitlement programs. If we do this right, thoroughly modernized […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 15, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Most of our nation’s problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several moral questions. Let’s start out with the simple and move to the more complex. Or, stated another way, let’s begin with questions that generate the least hostility, moving to those that generate the greatest.

If a person benefits from a hamburger, a suit of clothing, an apartment or an education, who should be forced to pay for it? I believe the […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 15, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

My new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, published by HarperCollins, went on sale this week. The book begins by explaining the overwhelming tidal wave of government spending, taxes, deficits and debt swamping our economy and threatening ultimate bankruptcy for America. But this book is not just about the problems, but also about the solutions.

Defusing the ticking bankruptcy bomb that is threatening to explode American prosperity will require first creating another economic boom to restore traditional […]

This column by Wes Vernon was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website, and reviews ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara’s new book.

AMERICA’S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB: HOW THE LOOMING DEBT CRISIS THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAM – AND HOW WE CAN TURN THE TIDE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

By Peter Ferrara

Broadside Books, $25.99, 415 pages

The timing for release of this book could not be better. The debt ceiling’s claimed deadline approaches as Congress wrangles over how or whether to confront the consequences in a meaningful […]