Steve Stanek
Steve Stanek is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and a former managing editor of two Heartland publications, "Budget & Tax News" and "Finance, Insurance & Real Estate News." Stanek's articles have appeared in numerous local, state and national publications since he began writing for Heartland in 2003, and he has been a frequent guest on local and national radio and television programs discussing government budget and regulatory issues.
Latest posts by Steve Stanek (see all)
- Don’t Expect Big Changes to Come from the Republicans’ Big Wins - November 5, 2014
- Fear the Day Government’s Great Fiction Lies Exposed - October 26, 2014
- Abusive Tax Policies Are to Blame for Corporations Going Overseas - October 18, 2014
Are China’s leaders better than America’s? I doubt it. One-party rule cannot possibly be better than two-party rule, because there’s more opportunity for the corruption, recklessness and abuse of citizens that absolute power brings.
Democrats and Republicans may be separate wings of the same bird of prey, but sometimes the wings don’t beat together in perfect sync, which makes our government less able than China’s to force things down our throats.
With this in mind I present this brief Bloomberg News report, “Behind the Wall: China’s Ghost Cities.”
China might be blowing an even bigger real estate bubble than our government leaders helped blow.
