Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
In my opinion, this book ranks among those written by Adam Smith, Frederick Bastiat, and Ludwig Von Mises. Understanding Contoski’s message will make a reader a more effective participant in the fight to fix our country’s flawed economic policies.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
It is a cliché, but true, that history repeats itself. This is largely due to the failure of each new generation to learn anything from the past as well as[…]
It is often truly astonishing to me the harm done by the way the federal government was expanded well beyond its constitutional limits during the 1930’s New Deal era. One[…]
Featured · FIRE · Government
For every 100 mortgages being sold in the United States these days, at least 95 of them have government backing. We’re told America has a free-market economy? Not judging by the government’s involvement in housing, arguably the most important market there is. Most people can go years without needing health care. A healthy adult can go weeks without food. We cannot go one day without needing shelter.
No need to wait around three years and beyond to know what Barack Obama’s “legacy” will be. It will be failure. Few, if any, presidents have demonstrated his level of incompetence and ineptitude.
Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Like Captain Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca, I am “shocked… shocked” to find that gambling has been going on in the mortgage-backed securities business. And so, apparently, is the[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Last week in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman called for higher taxes than the Clinton era, citing how increased revenues need to be in the picture and not[…]
Economics · FIRE · Regulation
Reactions to recent events by astronaut, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico and Heartland Institute board member Harrison Schmitt (cross-posted at Schmitt’s personal blog, America’s Uncommon Sense): Debt Limit The fiscal house[…]
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