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A More Better Future

{ Posted on Feb 07 2012 by Ronald Bailey }
Woe is us! Our overpopulated and overheated world is running out of water, food, and nonrenewable resources, all the while menaced by natural and bioterror pandemics. As The Limits to Growth famously predicted 40 years ago, exponential growth in population, resource depletion, and pollution ...Read More »

Nick Gillespie Talks Politics of Homeowning on Freedom Watch w Judge Napolitano

{ Posted on Feb 07 2012 by Nick Gillespie }
  Last Friday, I appeared on Fox Business' Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano to talk about the politics of home ownership and how it's distorted the economy to bad ends. The short version: There's no way that the government can guarantee or heavily subsidize a ...Read More »

Catching Up With Independents

{ Posted on Feb 07 2012 by Matt Welch }
It’s hard to imagine a more favorable climate for an opposition party to gain voters than an election year with an unpopular White House incumbent under whose watch the economy has been and likely will continue to be awful. Yet a mere nine ...Read More »

Corporatism Is Not the Free Market

{ Posted on Feb 03 2012 by Sheldon Richman }
When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy,” one is left scratching one’s head. How refreshing it is, then, to hear a prominent establishment economist—a ...Read More »

Central Planning at the Federal Reserve

{ Posted on Feb 01 2012 by Sheldon Richman }
While it is understandable that inflation hawks keep a close watch on the Federal Reserve’s money-creation activities, an equally worrisome Fed activity is taking place right under their noses. Whether or not the Fed is expanding the money supply, it has undoubtedly moved into ...Read More »

Central Planning at the Federal Reserve

{ Posted on Feb 01 2012 by Sheldon Richman }
While it is understandable that inflation hawks keep a close watch on the Federal Reserve’s money-creation activities, an equally worrisome Fed activity is taking place right under their noses. Whether or not the Fed is expanding the money supply, it has undoubtedly moved into ...Read More »

U.S. Sends Bulls to Russia, Bad Economics Jokes Ensue

{ Posted on Feb 01 2012 by Katherine Mangu-Ward }
This Washington Post story about the planned importation of U.S. bulls to Russia... Twenty-nine black-and-white aspiring sires have set hoof in Russia, part of the first export of live Virginia Holstein bulls to that country, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) announced last week. Thirty more will head there ...Read More »

U.S. Sends Bulls to Russia, Bad Economics Jokes Ensue

{ Posted on Feb 01 2012 by Katherine Mangu-Ward }
This Washington Post story about the planned importation of U.S. bulls to Russia... Twenty-nine black-and-white aspiring sires have set hoof in Russia, part of the first export of live Virginia Holstein bulls to that country, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) announced last week. Thirty more will head there ...Read More »

U.S. Sends Bulls to Russia, Bad Economics Jokes Ensue

{ Posted on Feb 01 2012 by Katherine Mangu-Ward }
This Washington Post story about the planned importation of U.S. bulls to Russia... Twenty-nine black-and-white aspiring sires have set hoof in Russia, part of the first export of live Virginia Holstein bulls to that country, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) announced last week. Thirty more will head there ...Read More »

The Glories of Capitalism

{ Posted on Jan 31 2012 by A. Barton Hinkle }
The glories of free-market capitalism are capacious. It has lifted hundreds of millions of people from bare subsistence to astonishing wealth. It has given us life-saving medical marvels, grocery shelves groaning with plenty, and phones that let you dial long-distance in the middle of ...Read More »