A Disease Masquerading As Its Own Cure, Part II

I’d like to take a moment to salute Ms. Jacqueline Charles of McClatchy Newspapers. With all the bad economic journalism out there it’s not always easy to stand out from the crowd, but Ms. Charles has found a way to take bad reporting to a whole new level with the following article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/505264.html. This is [...]

A Disease Masquerading As Its Own Cure

“The entire world now realizes that we’re entering a crisis, that we’ve entered a food crisis. They’re now realizing that it isn’t the market that’s going to solve the human drama, and now they’re calling for governments to take measures to regulate the market — (even) the very World Bank.” – Hugo Chavez, April 19, [...]

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate, [...]

Tell Congress to Hang Up on the HANGUP Act

Sometimes it’s the little things that best illustrate just how far we’ve gone off the tracks. I saw the following article today on www.cellular-news.com:
US Politicans Seek to Ban Phones in PlanesSeveral US politicians are proposing a law to ban the use of voice communications on mobile phones within aircraft over the USA. Reps. Peter [...]

Don’t Cry For Me, Cry For Argentina

One of my favorite cities in the world is Buenos Aires. Or at least it was…the last time I was there was in the late nineties. Since then, Argentina has suffered a complete economic meltdown, followed by a mild recovery.
But why settle for a mild recovery when government can deliver a total catastrophe instead? That’s [...]

Ryan’s Law

CNN recently ran a story about Lorri Unumb, the mother of an autistic boy in South Carolina who, in true David vs. Goliath fashion, took on the evil health insurance industry and won. When her son was diagnosed with autism, she learned that most policies don’t cover the kind of therapy that was required. Although [...]

Beware of Predatory Lenders!

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the subprime mortgage crisis and the anticipated expansion of the Fed’s regulatory powers in response to it. Some people may be concerned about government overreach and the negative effects it may have on our economic liberty, but right now it’s much more important to focus on the dangers [...]