Obama Golfs While Americans Job-Seek
Obama and his administration is so detached from reality that it is afflicting millions of Americans who want to work while at the same time its policies are reducing the number of new jobs being created.
Category: Economics
Economics · Featured · Government · Politics
The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’
Seventy years ago this month, on March 10, 1944, “The Road to Serfdom” by Friedrich A. Hayek was first published in Great Britain. For seven decades it has continued to challenge and influence the political-economic landscape of the world. Hayek delivered an ominous warning that political trends in the Western democracies, including America, were all in the direction of a new form of servitude that threatened the personal and economic liberty of the citizens of these countries.
Government Broadband Overbuilds Are Anti-competitive
Governments do not “compete” with companies. Governments tax, limit, police and judge companies. So when governments try and offer a similar service that private companies have long provided consumers, these governments[...]
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
CBO Report Shows Obamacare’s Economic Damage
Obama’s implied tax and subsidy penalties for success are so high that it won’t be worth a lower-income person’s effort to try to climb up the income ladder.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
VID: Heartland’s Ben Domenech on MSNBC Talking Obamacare and Job Losses
Heartland Senior Fellow Benjamin Domenech was a guest Wednesday night on “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. Ben is rare among people who go on TV to talk: He actually endeavors to answer the questions he’s asked.
Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Community Organizers Chase Trader Joe’s Out of Portlandia
Community organizers in Portland outsmarted themselves. You hate Trader Joe’s, you get no Trader Joe’s — and all the good stuff that comes with it. Way to ‘serve’ the community!
Economics · Featured · Politics · Speaker Series
Michelle Malkin to Headline Heartland’s Benefit Dinner
The Heartland Institute is proud to announce Michelle Malkin as the keynote speaker at our 30th Anniversary Benefit on September 12, 2014. SAVE THE DATE!
Dumber and Number: The Destructive Pursuit of Fixing Income Inequality
The only way to permanently rid a society of a ‘gap’ in either wealth or income is by making everybody equally poor. If nobody has any more wealth than anybody else, then nobody can be ‘wealthy.’
Obama’s State Of The Union Formula For Economic Stagnation
President Obama paints pretty pictures with flowery pro-growth and populist rhetoric. But the results are consistently the opposite of his promises.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
Where the U.S. Economy Is Going, and Why
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
Why Economic Growth Is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality
Achieving and sustaining such economic growth should be the central focus of national economic policy, for it would solve every problem that plagues and threatens us today.
Economics · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
U.S. Wireless Economics Beat EU’s Wireless Uneconomics
Without market economic thinking and pricing that plans ahead and continually funds infrastructure investment, the EU will continue to fall further behind other countries around the world.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Barack Obama’s Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Random
Them vs. Us
With all the talk of America’s forgotten middle class, it’s worth taking time as we begin a new year to consider that the country’s seeming obsession with wealth and inequality may instead be turning the U. S. into a country with only two classes: the governed and the governing.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Liberty
Obama’s 2014 Big Lie: Income Inequality
Income inequality will be the theme of Obama’s forthcoming State of the Union speech, but like everything else he says it will be a Big Lie.
Don’t Fear ‘Deflation,’ Unless Caused by Government
A truly free market economy is one that tends to have the “good deflation,” and we should look forward to it.
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- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
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