Environment/Energy · Featured · Podcast
Director of Communications, Jim Lakely, and Managing Editor of Energy and Environment News, H. Sterling Burnett, talk about the recently passed Cromnibus bill and how it effects environmental policy in today’s podcast.
At some point between Thanksgiving and December 1, the federal government made history, as the value of outstanding U.S. Treasury securities exceeded $18 trillion—that’s an 18 with 12 trailing zeroes. At some point, such numbers begin to lose their meaning because the amounts exceed most people’s ability to comprehend.
Last week the Center for American Progress released a health care reform plan it claimed should draw bipartisan support because it includes Republican ideas. The first four words of an Associated Press article reporting on the plan were “Borrowing a Republican idea.”
The total federal government spending in 2013 totaled $3,454,253,000,000—over $3.4 trillion—encompassing defense, highway and transportation costs, public education, immigration services, and government worker salaries, to name a few.
One-hundred-twenty fellow lovers of liberty signed up to attend an evening with Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames at the historic Union League Club in Chicago on Wednesday, August 13, for a special edition of The Heartland Institute’s Author Series to hear Forbes and Ames discuss their new book, “Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy, and What We Can Do About It.”
We live at a time when politicians and bureaucrats only know one public policy: more and bigger government. Yet, there was a time when even those who served in government defended limited and smaller government. One of the greatest of these died one hundred years ago on August 27, 1914, the Austrian economist Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk.
Featured · Government · Politics · Science · Uncategorized
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.
Economics · Featured · Government
For more than two hundred years, practically all of the leading advocates of individual liberty and free markets have assumed that money and banking were different from other types of goods and markets. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, the presumption has been that competitive markets and free consumer choice are far better than government control and planning – except in the realm of money and financial intermediation. They have been wrong on this important issue.
Economics · Government · Liberty · Random
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 · Politics
I frequently marvel that a loon like Nancy Pelosi could have become Speaker of the House and is currently the House minority leader. Recently she said, “The cupboard is bare.[…]
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.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Podcast · Politics · Regulation
The Heartland Institute recently hosted renowned economist and political commentator John Lott, who gave an enlightening talk about this new book “At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?”
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
“Money doesn’t grow on trees, you say? That outdated notion is where you went wrong. Today’s paper money IS trees.”
Immediately upon leaving office and turning turn over the “bully pulpit” of the White House to Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush retreated from public life. Unlike predecessor Bill[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE
In a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal, a group of prominent economic experts took the government to task for many of its current poor fiscal and monetary decisions[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[Editor’s note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[Editor’s note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] Last week on June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Our own Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, was a guest last Saturday (June 23) on the nationally syndicated Larry Kudlow radio show.[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
[Editor’s note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win[…]
(This essay was first published at The American Spectator. Editor: Half-hearted apologies to Dire Straits for the headline.) Obama campaign operative Rex Nutting surprised a lot of people with an[…]
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