Warren Buffett Knows Less Government Means More Economic Activity
Remember the “Buffet Rule?”
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Featured · Government · Politics · Science · Uncategorized
Welcome to the New Space Age
Penn Jillette, the world-famous magician (and fellow of the Cato Institute), has a saying: “Everybody got a gris-gris.” By that, Jillette means everyone has some irrational belief or superstition, something one believes even when knowing it is an unreasonable. We carry these superstitions through life like talismans, and we defend them when confronted with the cold light of reason. My gris-gris is NASA.
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The Vicious Cycle: Government Warps Markets Until Government Stops Warping Markets
The pernicious effect of government warping markets is absolute – and the evidence is obvious and everywhere. When 300+ million Americans (and when 8+ billion worldwide are able to) make[…]
Video: The Government is a Horrible Private Sector Prognosticator
We have before us – and the government – Comcast’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
Which the Leviathan and the Left view as an opportunity to outright blockade the free market. Or, barring that, unilaterally impose many, many a la carte regulations – that they otherwise can’t get imposed – in exchange for Mother-May-I government-transaction-approval.
Economics · Government · Regulation
When Governments Attack the Private Sector
Your average government – anywhere in the world – has more resources at its disposal than just about any private company on the planet.
So when a government sets its sites on making a private company’s life miserable – it almost always can. Because it can put the full weight of the Leviathan behind the push – and it is spending Other People’s Money to do it.
Economics · Featured · Government · Politics
Classical Liberalism and the Quest for World Peace
or almost a century, since the end of the First World War in 1918, mankind has been in search of international order and global peace through the political method of international organization. However, instead of peace among men, the last one hundred years as seen almost unending wars, great and small. Maybe it is because men have looked for peace from government rather than from a rebirth of the philosophy of individualism and classical liberalism.
Education · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Balancing Act of an Orthodox Christian School
Mary Najarrian, principal of Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy in San Francisco, joins The Heartland Institute for a podcast about how an orthodox school balances conflict and education.
FCC’s Special Access Delay of its IP Transition
FCC staff just muffed an easy opportunity to advance the IP transition on the FCC’s timetable in the National Broadband Plan. Apparently FCC staff missed the big picture here.
Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom
Countless Government Operator Errors – And Obama Wants to Give Us More
We are currently hobbled by a whole host of federal government debacles. An endless litany of Government Operator Errors (GOEs). Many are chronic.
Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Random
Put the Permanently Furloughed Private-sector Employees Back To Work
Following a rough week for Obamacare, the President, understandably, wants to pivot to anything other than the devastating coverage of HealthCare.gov.
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