Disabling American Sovereignty
The UN prepares its fishy version of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
View ArticleEgypt's Missing Precondition
Without a commitment to liberty there can be no democracy.
View ArticleQuestions for Janet Yellin
Chairman of the Federal Reserve is arguably the most important unelected office in America. It wields enormous influence over the financial health of the nation, and indeed the world. So it is...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences of Credit Card Regulation
When you try to regulate things, you’re really regulating people. If there’s one crucial lesson to keep in mind about regulation, this is it. And these days, when regulations cost us over $14,000 per...
View ArticleThe Legislature's First Job Is Not to Legislate
Defenders of Sen. Harry Reid’s triggering of the “nuclear option,” ending the filibuster for all Executive Branch nominees save those to the Supreme Court, call it a triumph for democracy....
View ArticleSanta Capitalism
We should call it the “Great Fact,” argues University of Illinois at Chicago economist Deidre McCloskey. “It” is the Industrial Revolution that, starting in Great Britain in the late 18th century,...
View ArticleExporting Solyndras?
The New York Times’ crusading columnist Joe Nocera is an unlikely supporter of crony capitalism. Yet this week he has come out unabashedly in favor of the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, on the grounds...
View ArticleNo Triple Mandate for the Federal Reserve
A recent speech by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen got considerable attention over her subtly implied suggestion that the Fed consider taking on a third mandate—reducing economic inequality—in...
View ArticleThe Administration Is About to Upend American Business Practices
It is probably the biggest change in American employment law since the National Labor Relations Act and its reform in the 1930s and ’40s, but it could happen without the general public realizing it....
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