“Let the Market Solve the Energy Crisis”
ExxonMobil, lacking access to countries amenable to oil exploration, has invested less in finding new oil in 2007 that it did back in 1981.
Big Government
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Sunstein
Thaler and Sunstein have set themselves a seemingly impossible task. Paternalists maintain that it is sometimes justifiable to interfere with someone's freedom, if doing so will promote his own good.
Grand Theft Society
We need to shut down the machinery that allows government to enact its plans.
The Government’s Statistical Whopper of the Year
The government wants to shape perceptions in order to minimize dissatisfaction with its irresponsible monetary and fiscal policies. When the financial press goes along and parrots statements that are obviously false, it fails in its duty to its readers.
Challenge to America: A Current Assessment of Our Republic
The cliché “Third Way” has been used to define the so-called compromise between the conventional wisdom of the conservative and liberal
Minimum Wage Debate
Dr. Block and Dr. Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute) debate the minimum wage on 8 March 2008.
Bad News, Comrades: Reading Did Not Improve
President Bush and the Republicans are no better than the naive Great Society liberals of yesteryear in thinking that a new law and new government
Insatiable Government
The title essay alone reveals the importance of this book. It was written in 1932 as a thrashing assault on the Hoover administration for its big spending, tax regulating, and inflating program that the author said would make the depression...
The Difference between a Liberal and a Radical
The liberal looks with increasing favor upon the socialization of industry, or as it is sometimes called, the democratization of industry. The radical keeps pointing out that while this is all very well in its way, monopoly values will as inevitably devour socialized industry as they now devour what the liberals call capitalistic industry.
