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Charles Ortel

ckortel@yahoo.com

Charles Ortel became a lapsed member of the silent majority in August 2007 when he began alerting the public to dangers posed by structural changes in the global economy. Since then, Mr. Ortel has appeared in the print, radio and television media with increasing frequency. Brass Tacks will attempt to offer nonpartisan perspective on factors contributing to the unresolved, burgeoning crisis and discuss potential solutions. Mr. Ortel graduated from Horace Mann School, Yale College and Harvard Business School.

Articles by Charles Ortel

The Islamic State is on the rise and must be stopped. (Raqqa Media Center via Associated Press)

ORTEL: Fight against radical Islam requires action now

What happened on Sept. 11, 2001, could return this year on the unlucky 13th anniversary of the last terrorist attack. Evildoers who twist Islamic thinking into acts of terror already have announced intent to do America in.

August 24, 2014
"Upon convening under Republican control next Jan. 3, Congress should enact a statute prohibiting the president from suspending enforcement of the deportation laws for categories of undocumented aliens through executive orders, agency directives or otherwise," writes Bruce Fein. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ORTEL: Create an American sovereign wealth fund

New York-In America, the cradle of capitalism, we need to have a sovereign wealth fund. Capitalized with at least $1 trillion in the beginning, our fund should be the largest, most forward-looking and most successful one in the world.

August 21, 2014
Karl Marx

ORTEL: A jobs picture that is much worse than advertised

Forget what most experts are saying about the jobs picture — if you work in America in the private sector, you will earn less during your career than previous generations, you will have fewer benefits, and you will spend long periods unemployed and trying to reinvent yourself.

August 17, 2014
"Upon convening under Republican control next Jan. 3, Congress should enact a statute prohibiting the president from suspending enforcement of the deportation laws for categories of undocumented aliens through executive orders, agency directives or otherwise," writes Bruce Fein. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ORTEL: U.S. needs a fortress to defend the dollar

Rather than learning about looming challenges watching television while on vacation, our president should use his phone, his best financial minds and his pen to act decisively before the next phase in the debt crisis hits.

August 12, 2014
"Upon convening under Republican control next Jan. 3, Congress should enact a statute prohibiting the president from suspending enforcement of the deportation laws for categories of undocumented aliens through executive orders, agency directives or otherwise," writes Bruce Fein. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ORTEL: America will flourish again with a strong dollar

The simple key to making our dollar strong again is reversing interventionist policies led by the Federal Reserve System that have artificially pushed down benchmark interest rates below official estimates for consumer price inflation.

August 7, 2014
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen removes her glasses as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, before the House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled: "Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

ORTEL: Note to Janet Yellen: The American bubble is popping

This week, guests will interact with Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen and colleagues inside a benign bubble that no outsider can prick -- a scripted symposium, manufactured for the select few in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

July 27, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, Thursday July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Kye R. Lee, Pool)

ORTEL: As President Obama frolics, real bears get ready to feast

Cutting to the front of a line, while defying school lunch dictates promulgated by the first lady, President Obama let his inner bear loose last week. Our President slurped down Texas barbecue, scant miles away from the latest humanitarian crisis his administration manufactures, choosing to avert his own eyes though he had spent your money to get close enough to our southern border.

July 13, 2014
** FILE ** President Obama. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

ORTEL: In America, ‘Dependence Day’ will never be a national holiday

The parades are over and barbecue residue's all mopped up following America's birthday weekend. Yet at a moment when we should vividly remember why our Founders sacrificed so much to secure freedom, the Obama administration continues force-feeding its twisted vision for this country.

July 6, 2014
FILE - In this photo taken June 14, 2014, President Barack Obama speaks at the University of California, Irvine, at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif., where he told the graduating class that denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, and issued a call to action on global warming. Obama's new pollution limits for power plants have set off an avalanche of information about what the rules will cost, how they’ll affect your health, and how far they’ll go toward curbing climate change. There’s just one problem: almost none of the estimates are is based in reality. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

ORTEL: Barack Obama’s ‘big lies’ fail us on Father’s Day

It is a good thing for Team Obama that "lemon laws" do not apply to campaign assertions made in 2012 — radical Islamists are rising across oil-bearing Middle Eastern hot spots, while General Motors and the American economy stumble in reverse.

June 15, 2014