Obama’s Disastrous Energy Policy
Obama insists that drilling “cannot come close” to meeting America’s energy needs.
Free Market Fundamentalist
Free Market Fundamentalist is an Atlantic Sentinel blog with an exaggerated faith in laissez-faire capitalism.
On Tax Relief and Deficit Reduction
Democrats don’t understand how Republicans can favor tax cuts while they claim to worry about the deficit.
White House Wants Business to Stop Complaining
The Obama Administration is pushing back against the notion that its policy is hostile to business.
Charter Schools a Setback, Despite Success
Education in the United States can seem a bit bewildering at times. Confronted with the undeniably poor performance of public schools, in the 1990s, an alternative was devised that gave greater freedom to individual teachers and schools while not admitting fully that the free-market option — private schools — are in fact the only viable […]
The Proper Size of Government
A common charge voiced against libertarians is that they should promote social and political anarchy. “Why don’t you move to Somalia?” critics wonder about proponents of limited government as though the poor East African country were a textbook example of a free society. Such rancor misses the point entirely. Laissez-faire doesn’t prosper in lawlessness. A […]
Open the Borders
Allowing people to move freely across borders is an economic as well as a moral imperative.
Obama’s War on Capitalism
Barack Obama inherited two Middle East wars from his predecessor and countless of struggles labeled as such from the many presidents that came before him, ranging from a critical War on Terror to an endless and largely futile war on drugs. His administration has so far added one notable campaign to this list — a […]
Thatcher Proves Krugman Wrong
The British leader showed that there’s an alternative to Keynesianism.
Greece Should Get To Work
The meltdown in Greece of last April exposed not just the economic weakness of this particular South European state; uncertainty about public finances was suddenly abound throughout the European Union. A multibillion euro rescue plan necessitated unprecedented efforts to guarantee the stability of the common currency. German chancellor Angela Merkel even warned that the very […]
The Real Face of Obamacare
The head of Medicare and Medicaid laments the “darkness” of private health insurance.
America’s Last Free Market Under Threat
Amid all the public scrutiny and government regulation that befell American industry throughout the past decades, one sector notably remained relatively untouched by the state. That very sector, at the same time, expanded enormously and revolutionized business and private lives alike at prices that continue to decline up to this very day. But even ICT […]
The Libertarian Mob
Commentators and intellectuals on the left continue to grapple while trying to figure out the Tea Party phenomenon. For some time they could be dismissed as racist or just plain dumb but such criticism is harder to sustain no with research showing that the 18 percent or so of Americans who identify as supporters of […]
Don’t Count Out Free Markets Just Yet
Except for China, there hasn’t been an economic success story in history that wasn’t built on free markets.
How to Solve Youth Unemployment
The New York Times predicts desperate times ahead for America’s youngsters. The recession has diminished most of the remaining part-time job opportunities previously available to young people during the summer, “despite a summer jobs program that was paid for through the stimulus package.” The problem is severest in poor, minority communities. “Those are the places […]
Still Government Motors
General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre boasted in The Wall Street Journel last week that his company paid back its government bailout “in full, with interest, years ahead of schedule.” GM has subsequently began running advertisements promoting its financial responsibility while proponents of the bailouts are yelling, “I told you so!” But, writing for Forbes, Shikha […]