Karen De Coster, CPA

Karen DeCoster, CPA, has a BBA in Accounting and an MA in economics from Walsh College in Troy, Michigan.

She has written for an assortment of publications and organizations, including the Mises Institute, LewRockwell.com, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Heartland Institute, WorldNetDaily, Southern Events, Taki’s Magazine, Euro Pacific Capital, and the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute.

Articles

How Non-Profits Enhance Freedom and Markets

08/28/2014 Mises Daily Karen De Coster, CPA

The nonprofit form of enterprise is indispensable to both recipient individuals and the benefactors who fund them.

Emancipate the Consumer

02/01/2002 Free Market Karen De Coster, CPA

Consumer protection regulation is the consumer’s worst nightmare. In fact, it is not protective at all. It is merely another one of those regulatory rackets that has the appearance of providing necessary security for a collective group in an entirely positive sense while encompassing no negatives. After all, how can anything entitled "protection" have a downside?

Pork: The Government’s Other White Meat

01/08/2013 Mises Daily Karen De Coster, CPA

The story of pork’s decline involves the usual suspects: special interest lobbying arms and the federal government’s 30+ years of war on dietary fat.

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