The Fed @ 100: Can’t fix Obamanomics
Today’s centennial anniversary of the creation of the “Third Bank of the United States,” legally titled the Federal Reserve, seems a good time to reflect on its mostly unchecked power, role in causing...
View ArticleArthur Brooks Has the Key to #Happiness
I won’t provide a lot of preamble. You simply ought to set aside 19 minutes and watch. You can also read Brooks’ piece in the New York Times. Great! Happiness starts here: http://on.fb.me/1e6sMc0 How...
View ArticleCapitalism’s Imperious Moral Code
A follow-up to “With Two Hands Tied Behind Their Backs: Famous Quotes on the Success of the Jewish People.” By Andrew G. Benjamin Fair exchange, fair products and fair payments for goods and services...
View ArticleThe insane failure of the “war on poverty”
A few days ago, we posted “The inmates are running the asylum . . . and it’s driving business abroad,” which included this discussion of the aphorism “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
View ArticlePoverty: Another War We’ve Lost
Because this is near the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaring war on poverty, there has been a lot of attention paid to the problem that I’m betting will somehow survive even longer than...
View ArticleVideo: Thomas Sowell rips Obama apart without breaking a sweat
“The road to hell is paved with Ivy-league degrees.” —Thomas Sowell This is from 2012, but it is timeless nonetheless.
View ArticleUnited States in danger of being surpassed in economic freedom by Botswana
15 years ago, the United States ranked in the top five most economically free nations of the world in most of the ranking systems of organizations who take such surveys. Since then, we have plummeted...
View ArticleFree Markets in Healthcare Aren’t ‘Broken’—Just Not Allowed to Work
Democrats excel at “message discipline”—sticking to talking points whether their script is factually correct or not. Repeated often enough, the script becomes “truth.” Democrats’ script says: “The U.S....
View ArticleMore Freedom, More Prosperity
Here’s the deal. At some point, the left doesn’t get a pass any more because of their “good intentions.” If they spent half as much time analyzing the effects of the kinds of policies they support as...
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