Government · Liberty · Politics
The Paycheck Fairness Act is the Wrong Solution
On April 9, the United States Senate failed to move forward The Paycheck Fairness Act for a third time. The Act would change the language of the Equal Pay Act[...]
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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.
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Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Need to Lead to Fully Free Trade
The United States and Japan are at the trade negotiation table – for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Absolutely excellent. The freer the trade the better – the more the merrier.
The Austrian Economists Who Refuted Marx (and Obama)
The president of the United States has publicly declared that he knows the minimum wage any worker in the United States should earn as an hourly salary: $10.10. Why not $11.11 or $9.99 has been left a mystery. But what the president is sure of is that businessmen clearly are stonehearted money grabbers exploiting some of their workers by not paying them the real value of what their labor is worth.
Why is the Left So Opposed to Darwinian Evolution in the Market?
Natural selection is the gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment….
The term “natural selection” was popularized by Charles Darwin who intended it to be compared with artificial selection, which is now called selective breeding.
All of this sounds an awful lot like a free market economy. Species are companies — the market, the environment. Only the capitalism evolution timeline is infinitely compressed. It doesn’t take thousands of years for changes to occur — they happen instantaneously, constantly, incessantly. And the price for natural selection changes for the worse are paid just as fast — a good idea today can kill you tomorrow.
Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
Community Organizers Chase Trader Joe’s Out of Portlandia
Community organizers in Portland outsmarted themselves. You hate Trader Joe’s, you get no Trader Joe’s — and all the good stuff that comes with it. Way to ‘serve’ the community!
Dumber and Number: The Destructive Pursuit of Fixing Income Inequality
The only way to permanently rid a society of a ‘gap’ in either wealth or income is by making everybody equally poor. If nobody has any more wealth than anybody else, then nobody can be ‘wealthy.’
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Legal Affairs
Bean Bag Justice?
Tax evasion is of course illegal, but tax avoidance is not.
Why Economic Growth Is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality
Achieving and sustaining such economic growth should be the central focus of national economic policy, for it would solve every problem that plagues and threatens us today.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Featured · Government · Random · Regulation
Are America’s Best Days Really Ahead?
America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Obama Changes The Subject Away From Obamacare, Whiffs On Income Inequality
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is[...]
South Africa and Ending Apartheid: The Free Market Road Not Taken
Forgotten or at least certainly downplayed in the international remembrance of Mandela’s nearly three decades of imprisonment and his historical role in becoming the first black president of post-Apartheid South Africa is the fact that through most of the years of his active resistance leading up to his arrest and incarceration he accepted the Marxist interpretation that racism and racial discrimination were part and parcel of the capitalist system.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government
The Financial Collapse of America
As a longtime book reviewer, I have read a growing stack of books warning about a financial collapse, but Holland’s book is not only based in the actual debt, but is written in a manner that even a person who has no knowledge of this issue can understand.
Economics · Featured · Regulation
Time to End America’s Century of Central Bank Mismanagement
One hundred years ago this month, on December 23, 1913, the Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, establishing a national central-banking system in the United States. The governing board of the Federal Reserve was organized on August 12, 1914, and the Federal Reserve banks opened for operation on November 16, 1914.
Economics · Government · Liberty · Random
Giving Thanks for the Right to Retail
Retail stores are opening even earlier than usual for their annual Black Friday sales this year, in an intensifying competition for scarce consumer dollars. Big retailers such as Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Best Buy, Sears, and Toys R Us will open Thursday night and feature “doorbuster” bargains to lure tryptophan-laden customers into their emporia (if they can fit through the doors).
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
DOE Claims More ‘Success’ With Another Clean Energy Bankruptcy
Monday’s development is another black eye to President Obama’s green energy agenda, but we’ve come to learn that each flop is just another reason for his Energy Department to look on the bright side.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States
Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding. That sharpening[...]
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