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- Obama the Efficient Goes to Washington - March 3, 2009
- And he's making progress. "[W]e have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade." How will he do it? Here's an...
- Judging Obama - February 24, 2009
- If the gain is in the private sector, Obama's boosters will claim credit on the basis of the "multiplier effect." It's a favorite theory of politicians and...
- Real Jobs Create Wealth - February 18, 2009
- Its economic significance was not lost on that great advocate of full employment through public works, John Maynard Keynes. The British economist, so in...
- Making a Bad Bill Worse - February 10, 2009
- But some members of his party were elected on protectionist platforms, and they are not about to blow this chance to reward their union and industrial constituencies....
- We Can't Spend Our Way to Prosperity - February 3, 2009
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks that hundreds of millions of dollars for family-planning services will stimulate the economy. My colleague George...
- The College Scam - January 27, 2009
- But for three years she failed to find a decent job. Now she holds a low-level desk job doing work she says she could have done straight out of high school....
- Recession Doesn't Mean We Should Panic - Weekly Standard - January 24, 2009
- Anything That's Peaceful - January 21, 2009
- Choice is good. As a libertarian, I'm all over choice. But strangely, today, liberals are mostly about what Americans should not be allowed to choose. ...
- A False Sense of Security - January 13, 2009
- Notice the disconnect. Regulation failed, so we need more regulation. I see it differently. Regulation failed, so let's try free markets. That would be a...
- Madoff is a Piker - January 6, 2009
- Political leaders say Madoff's alleged crimes show what's wrong with the country. President-elect Obama said the "massive fraud that was made possible in...
- Caroline Kennedy Would Fit Perfectly in the Senate - December 30, 2008
- Zillions of people may rant that Caroline Kennedy lacks what it takes to be a senator, but I think she's qualified. After all, what does a senator do? ...
- Arrogant Conceit - December 23, 2008
- So they will "transform our economy." Obama's nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also...
- The Scandal is What's Legal - December 16, 2008
- As The New York Times reported, "$700 billion ... seemed to be an ocean of money. But after one of the biggest lobbying free-for-alls in memory, it suddenly...
- Federal Deficit is Cause for Worry - NH Union Leader - December 13, 2008
- Do Worry About the Deficit - December 9, 2008
- Obama hasn't put a price tag on his stimulus package yet, but speculation begins at $500 billion, with some people -- like Paul Krugman, the recent...
- Government Sets Us Up for the Next Bust - December 2, 2008
- The total federal commitment to date is over $7 trillion. The Fed had given up trying to make it easier for banks to lend to each. Now, the Times...
- The Big Three Should Stand on Their Own Feet - November 25, 2008
- The auto heads tried to pin their problems on the general economic decline. They also said their companies have gone far in working to turn themselves...
- Government 'Fixes' Slow Recovery - November 18, 2008
- First he was going to buy "toxic" mortgage-based assets from banks. A few days later, taking his lead from the Europeans, Paulson decided that...
- Progress Doesn't Come from Washington - November 11, 2008
- The infatuated chattering classes now demand "action" on the economy. They use positive words like "bold steps." The insufferable New York Times suggests the choice is...
- Who Will Run America? - November 4, 2008
- "That has to be a joke -- or a misunderstanding," said George Mason University economist Walter Williams on my recent TV special, "John Stossel's Politically...
- A Duty Not To Vote? - October 28, 2008
- But wait. Is that really a good idea? Many kids don't know much. At a HeadCount concert, "20/20" (http://tinyurl.com/47qe8q) asked some future voters, "How...
- Unappreciated Spontaneous Order - October 21, 2008
- Try this thought experiment suggested by economist Daniel Klein of George Mason University (http://tinyurl.com/elf8n). Imagine you had never seen a skating...
- We Don't Need Anyone to Run the World - Wall St. Journal - October 15, 2008
- The Reregulation Mantra? - October 14, 2008
- Is deregulation is the culprit? It can't be. There was no relevant deregulation in the last 25 years. Meanwhile, highly regulated institutions eagerly bought...
- Try Free Enterprise - October 7, 2008
- Everybody talked about the "freeze" in the credit markets, but why, I wonder, were the cable news programs that repeated the credit-freeze mantra pausing for...
- Regulator Bullies - September 30, 2008
- Outside the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D.C., twin sculptures sum up the government's attitude toward economic freedom. They depict a...
- What Happened to Market Discipline? - September 23, 2008
- The government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created precisely to interfere with the housing and mortgage markets. In effect, Freddie and Fannie...
- Barack Obama and White Privilege - September 16, 2008
- But black writer Shelby Steele argues that whites do blacks no favors wringing their hands about white privilege. "I grew up in segregation," Steele told...
- The Fallacy of 'Green Jobs' - September 9, 2008
- Wow. Five million new jobs. All that work building windmills and creating biofuels are the "green jobs" that will come into existence when wise government creates the...
- The Drinking Age Myth - September 2, 2008
- The college leaders' statement charges that a "culture of dangerous, clandestine 'binge-drinking' -- often conducted off-campus -- has developed" and that...
- Energy Independence II - August 26, 2008
- I argued that "independence," a favorite slogan of vote-hungry politicians, would require the government to interfere with the global division of labor,...
- The Idiocy of Energy Independence - August 19, 2008
- To be for "energy independence" is to be against trade. But trade makes us as safe. Crop destruction from this summer's floods in the Midwest should remind us of the...
- Whose Business Is It Anyway? - August 12, 2008
- Most everyone says anti-discrimination laws are good laws, especially those that protect older workers. But they're not. This year,...
- The Sky Isn't Falling - August 5, 2008
- When an obviously pregnant Lucille Ball appeared on "I Love Lucy," it was a controversial television breakthrough. Yet the word "pregnant" was never uttered. Simply...
- How Many Wives is Too Many? - July 29, 2008
- "The media kept saying, 'Polygamist leader, polygamist leader,'" Henkel told me. "But the case actually involved incest and arranged marriage of a girl with her...
- Sex Police - July 22, 2008
- "There were no children anywhere in sight. In fact, there were no adults anywhere in sight." Klein says it's part of "America's War on Sex"...
- Tear Down the Stop Signs! - July 15, 2008
- Rolling through a stop sign in Michigan puts two points on your driving record. That hikes your car insurance premium. Fighting the ticket could cost even more. So to...
- The Right to Self-Defense Affirmed - July 8, 2008
- Those are a few of many editorial expressions of disgust from the mainstream media over the Supreme Court's ruling that when the Bill of Rights says that "the right of...
- Dire News from My Colleagues - July 1, 2008
- Yes, growth has slowed, and many people are suffering because of falling home prices and higher food and energy prices. These are real problems, but watching TV,...
- Does McCain Understand Markets? - RealClearPolitcs - June 24, 2008