The Free Market 16, no. 1 (January 1998) History books and the popular culture are full of stories about how “the white man” brutally mistreated the American Indians during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Greedy capitalists are usually portrayed as the villains, killing Indians by the thousands to make way for the railroads in
The Free Market 16, no. 3 (March 1998) While American “liberals” tend to view Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton as their political and philosophical idols, conservatives at the Weekly Standard magazine and elsewhere have begun touting Henry Clay as their first political icon. But Henry Clay can only be considered to be
The Free Market 16, no. 6 (June 1998) Having failed to nationalize health care at the beginning of its first term, the Clinton administration seeks to nationalize children in its second. With little opposition from Republicans, the administration has proposed spending tens of billions of dollars on subsidized day care, mostly through federal
The Free Market 16, no. 8 (August 1998) Former FTC Chairman James C. Miller III, tells the story of how, in the early 1980s, Chrysler head Lee Iacocca requested that the FTC block a proposed joint venture between General Motors and Toyota. The request was denied. GM and Toyota formed the New United Motor Manufacturing Corporation. Iacocca
The Free Market 16, no. 11 (November 1998) The coalition of government bureaucrats, politicians, trial lawyers, and “political activists” who have orchestrated the demonization of “Big Tobacco” are about to wage a similar smear campaign against what the pressure group Common Cause has labeled “Big Booze.” The beer, wine, and liquor industries
The Free Market 17, no. 1 (January 1999) Unreconstructed Keynesians the world over are now calling for a “Global New Deal” ostensibly to put an end to the business cycle once and for all. President Clinton championed this view in a recent speech before a joint meeting of the World Bank and IMF in which he repeatedly cited President Franklin D.
The Free Market 17, no. 3 (March 1999) If there were justice in the world, Joan Claybrook, the head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration during the Carter administration, would be handcuffed to the steering column of a Volkswagen Beetle while an air bag was repeatedly blown up in her face. While in the government
The Free Market 17, no. 4 (April 1999) The journalist, television commentator, and former presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan has been sharply criticized by his fellow Republicans for allegedly betraying Republican party “free-market” principles in his new book, The Great Betrayal. In the book Buchanan argues for protectionism and claims
The Free Market 17, no. 7 (July 1999) The international socialist movement, led by Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is attempting to revive the disastrous policy of war socialism with which the current century began. Four recent events make clear their intentions: the Nato war on
The Free Market 17, no. 8 (August 1999) Two events during the third week of May proved once again that antitrust regulation is nothing but a scheme to divert the public’s attention away from the real monopoly menace in society: the state. The first event was a phony “predatory pricing” lawsuit filed by the Antitrust Division of the US Justice
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