Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
It’s hard to be a “public interest” group when private interests better serve the public. Free Press, which effectively defines the “public interest” as being against private interests in media, communications[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast · Politics
Rather than lie about inflation, people in government should declare the truth: The government cannot sustain these entitlement programs as they are structured, so they’re going to be cut.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
The 2012 election featured the bottom feeding charge of a Republican War on Women. The grounds for such a charge were less than zero. But with the Democrat Party outright[...]
Auditing the Fed, replacing Fed monetary policy discretion with a mandatory price rule governing policy, even the gold standard, Nobel Laureate Friedreich Hayek pushed the envelope beyond all of these.[...]
John Williams runs the Shadowstats.com Web site, which calculates inflation, gross domestic product, and other economic indicators by measuring them the way the government would have done decades ago. He[...]
Economics · FIRE · Politics · Regulation
This is rich. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week announced Operation Twist, a program to pour hundreds of billions of dollars of Fed money into long-term debt to drive[...]
In today’s New York Times there is an editorial that takes the supposed masters of money at the Federal Reserve to task for their timidity. It’s an almost boundlessly stupid[...]
Some folks at The Heartland Institute’s home office thought my little email exchange about Keynesian vs. Austrian economics, the Federal Reserve, etc., with Dick Ewing of Winthrop, Wash., worth publishing[...]
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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