Economics
The Problem with Our Health-Care Debate
Everyone seems to have a different take on how to solve America’s health-care problem. But notice that every solution offered involves some elaborate new system of government controls. Different proposals include a “public option,” mandatory insurance for individuals, government-supported health-care exchanges, government-sponsored “efficacy research,” government-supported co-ops, and as many other ways of dictating consumer... »
Danger: Food Supply Vulnerable to Terrorism
Imported food makes up a substantial and growing portion of the U.S. food supply and, considering the health and safety concerns of keeping American’s safe, Washington insiders seem oblivious to that part of protecting American citizens. To ensure imported food safety, federal agencies must focus their resources on high risk foods and coordinate efforts, according... »
Cyber Attack? Glenn Beck Exposes Obama’s Internet Takeover
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” – Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff. On Monday, October 19, top talk show host Glenn Beck will expose President Barack Obama’s latest power grab: control of the Internet. The show (aired on Fox News Channel at 5:00 PM EST) is a must-see... »
Economy – The Outlook Is Your Outlook
The vast central swath through the middle of the American political spectrum representing a majority, seeks reasonableness from government. The majority expects its business to be conducted with some integrity, without the encumbrance of concrete boots of left or right extremism demanded by party affiliation. This expectation of common sense, and forthrightness has not... »
Democrats Are Bad For Our Health
Alan Grayson (D-FL) has become the class clown of Congress, beating out some very heavy competition. How can anyone take a political party seriously that doesn’t do as much for itself? Grayson ruffled feathers and spread glee among the partisan flock a couple of weeks ago when he made this claim: “If you get sick,... »
Ludwig von Mises: Economist for the Ages
It seems that when an economy goes bad, the temptation for intellectuals to go and do likewise is too much for them to resist. Public thinkers across the spectrum, from Paul Krugman to Richard Posner, are now calling for a return to Keynesian economics, which attributes recessions to irrational, unexplainable decreases in aggregate demand... »
Conspiracy: Global Tax Next on Obama Agenda?
While the national battle over government-controlled health care is in its final stages, participation in a United Nations-run Global Poverty Tax is expected to come up for a vote in the US Congress any time soon, according to conservatives who fear it is a giant step towards handing over US sovereignty to the United... »
Stocks: The Whip Cracks Both Ways
Inherently volatile, the average daily fluctuation of the stock market is about 0.76%. If this movement were always up, the market would appreciate to more than six times its value in a year. If all the movement were down, you would have less than 15 cents for every dollar you invested at the beginning... »
The Dollar at the Precipice
If you’ve seen the movie “Thelma and Louise,” you’ll never forget the ending: In the last scene, the two main characters head down a dirt road in their top-down convertible. The road dead-ends at a very high cliff. The last picture of the movie shows the car in a dramatic free-fall off the cliff. That ending... »
Rethinking Barack Obama
I once thought of Barack Obama as an evil man. Barack Obama dismisses his critics with the enthusiasm of a child leaving school for summer vacation. Perhaps we are not completely right about everything we say. Reading someone on the inside, especially someone who plays us with carefully practiced external behavior is a tricky business.... »
Nuclear Energy: The Only Solution
Biofuels are all the rage these days, as illustrated by a particularly silly article that appeared in the New York Times recently. It claimed that homebrew biodiesel could significantly reduce the U.S. demand for imported oil. There is no way that ethanol from sugar, corn, or biomass is going to make a significant reduction in... »
Obama Continues Global Warming Hoax
The American people are more than just a little sick of being lied to and cheated by their politicians. Barack Obama remains defiant, trivializing historic protests taking place throughout the nation. In his most recent PR thrust, this past Friday, he brushed the national fury aside by characterizing it as typical right-left drivel, and likened... »
Health Care Reform Abandons Developmentally Disabled Children
If 1 in 150 or 1 in 100 children were being kidnapped or developed cancer -- all of a sudden with no explanation -– a national emergency would be declared. We have a national emergency and we, as a nation, are failing to respond. »
Monetary Madness
China, Russia, et al. are talking about shifting their monetary reserves out of U.S. dollars. Gold has hit $1000 per ounce, even though wholesale and retail prices exhibit a deflationary bias. The United Nations has called for a new world currency to replace the dollar. What’s going on? All of these phenomena are early death... »
Risk Aversion Strongly Correlated to Testosterone Levels
The evidence for substantial innate sex differences is mounting. I've long been a strong advocate for acknowledging this research, instead of trying to ignore it for ideological reasons, such as the postmodern feminist stance that all gender differences are culturally constructed. On the other hand, I usually take a very conservative approach, and write... »
To Man Up or Man Down
Women don’t have roles any more, except as they choose to take them on. Even then, they can change that role fluidly depending on whether they are vying for a promotion or sitting with a man in a restaurant when the dinner check arrives. Feminists and flat tires are seldom in each others... »
Equal Pay and Federal Coercion
When President Obama took office, one of his early official acts as president was to sign into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The bill, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was seen as a triumph for equal pay proponents and by many others as a crippling... »
Taxpayer Cash for Clunker Ideas
An ice-cold bucket of reality is in order. Here are a few of the more obvious problems with pulling the plug on grandma cars -- before we get conned by Boone Pickens' "clunker power plants" proposal. »
Bump Twice for Effect
Child support debt is tripled by adding penalties in Hobbit-world. You think America is the only place where non-custodial parents (read, Dads) are rorted by money seeking officials? GovernOrcs swarm everywhere. »
Government Stimulus Spending: Differing Perspectives
President Franklin Roosevelt, speaking of the intractable Depression, sourly admitted that Keynesian fiscal policy, in theory, was the simplest thing in the world, but in practice, a disaster. A thoughtful reader, who generally disagrees with me, posted the following as part of his comment responding to The Bigger the Government, the Harder the Economic Fall: I... »
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