The Government in Your Medicine Cabinet
“Why,” John Stossel wonders, “do Americans stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?”
Socialism
Subsidizing Jobs
States are subsidizing jobs, using taxpayers’ dollars to help companies meet payrolls. That’s not something government should be engaged in.
Bubbles, Deficits and European Arrogance
Excessive government spending, nor European integration, is responsible for Greece’s debt crisis.
More Government Won’t Fix Health Care
The free market hasn’t failed in American health care. Nick Ottens argues that government interference is in fact to blame.
The Immorality of Deficit Spending
Keynesian doctrine on deficit spending is still rampant but Americans should consider a warning from one of their Founding Fathers.
Nancy Pelosi: Modern-Day Trust Buster
Health reform has not even been enacted yet the Democratic leader is already contemplating the next step.
The Assault on Industry
The environmentalist gospel is heard evermore louder in public discussions today as governments the world over move to impose restrictions and regulations upon businesses for the sake of protecting the Earth. Products that are supposedly harmless to nature are quickly becoming the norm while companies happily promote themselves as “green” and ecologically responsible. Industry, meanwhile, […]
Sarkozy Bids Farewell to Capitalism
Government intervention in the economy is something of a tradition in France. As the the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal noted, French business “remains curtailed by the pervasive presence of the state in economic activity.” Government spends more than half of GDP and owns […]
Economic Freedom in 2010
Free markets are in retreat.
Haiti’s Avoidable Death Toll
Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, about eight times more violent […]
The Impossible Joy of Sacrifice
The recent disaster in Haiti has sparked a renewed wave of commentators to demand that men “sacrifice” for the sake of others’ needs. There is little mention of the injustice suffered by the Haitian people at the hands of their own government and, recently, at the hands of nature — which would be legitimate reasons […]
Krugman Says: Spend More!
Since the early days of the Obama Administration, economist Paul Krugman has been more than eager to defend every spending measure enacted by the Democrat.
The Government of Whim
“We want our money back,” cried President Obama yesterday, “and we’re going to get it!” Announcing a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee — a tax perfectly named for an era in which banks are held responsible for a recession that was beyond their control — the president promised American taxpayers that they would get “every single […]
Chávez Shuts Down Shops
Until a few years ago, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez was sometimes described as the benevolent kind but in recent years, his reign has grown ever more authoritarian. He abolished presidential term limits, withdrew Venezuela from both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 2007, nationalized the oil industry and built relations with countries […]
Deregulate the Banks!
Regulatory failure instead of a lax monetary policy bears the responsibility for the American housing bubble that produced the financial crisis of 2008, said Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke this Sunday. Bernanke rejected accusations that the Fed contributed to the fostering of the recession and argued that the interest rates set by the bank between […]