Despite planning efforts to restrict it, the Bay Area continues to disperse. For decades, nearly all population and employment growth in the San Jose-San Francisco Combined Statistical Area has been[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
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.
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE
Thirteen of Fisker Automotive executives made more than six figures in the past year, despite manufacturing zero cars.
Despite the success of recent reforms, legislators are now considering undermining positive flood insurance reforms by extending wasteful flood insurance subsidies in response to complaints from homeowners in high risk[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
A general optimism prevails in the United States and Europe that the economies have finally turned the corner and growth is resuming. Don’t get too excited.
FIRE · Legal Affairs · Podcast · Regulation
Now … we’ve got the protection of the Constitution that forces governments to prove their case, to prove … what they’re asking for is really litigation, and not simply extortion.”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE · Podcast · Taxes
It’s like putting your money in a bank. But instead of the bank paying you interest…you pay the bank interest.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · FIRE · Podcast
Ever hear of California’s infamously bankrupt Stockman County? Listen to the podcast and discover how Chicago has 13 municipalities that can top it.
On June 10, the US Senate voted 66 to 27 to approve the 2013 Farm Bill, an expensive piece of legislation that will guide the agricultural and food policies of the US[...]
GOLD The World Gold Council on May 16 issued it summary report for the first quarter of 2013. Central banks added 109.2 metric tons of gold to their reserves, the[...]
Economics · Featured · FIRE · Liberty
The other day I came across a good review of Edmund Contoski’s latest book, The Impending Monetary Revolution, The Dollar and Gold, at Feathered Quill Book Reviews. An excerpt from that[...]
Featured · FIRE · Podcast · Politics
President Barack Obama has proposed studying the possibility of privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest government-owned utility. Privatization expert Leonard Gilroy of The Reason Foundation tells Heartland‘s Steve Stanek why the president[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE
P&C insurers stand to make more profits if they exaggerate the threat of global warming. So they do. Is New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter just stupid?
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE · Podcast
Businesses and industries looking for government handouts have produced studies that predict big paybacks. Roy Cordato of the John Locke Foundation says there’s a great reason to take these studies with a shaker or two of salt.
Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
The latest edition of The Heartland Institute’s Author Series featured Hester Peirce of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. One of the most-knowledgeable scholars in America on finance policy, Hester[...]
Central banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have[...]
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