Category: Free markets
Economic freedom in America: The decline, and what it means
The decline in economic freedom in the U.S. leads to slow growth in the private sector economy and persistently high unemployment.
The politically-motivated attack on Koch Industries
The more scrutiny the Bloomberg article attacking Koch Industries receives, the worse it looks.
NAT GAS Act: Markets are better able to decide
The real lesson to be learned from Solyndra is that government is not equipped to act as entrepreneur. We need to apply that lesson to natural gas powered vehicles before it is too late.
Free market energy solutions don’t jeopardize national security
Free market energy solutions don’t jeopardize national security, writes U.S. Representatives Mike Pompeo and Jeff Flake.
Walter Williams on doing good
Economist Walter Williams told a Wichita audience that when government is used in an attempt to do good, it requires either elimination or attenuation of private property and market forces. But it is private property and the desire for more that motivates people to do difficult and laborious things that benefit their fellow man. It…
Contrary to Buffet, government spending is not good
Recently wealthy investor Warren Buffet has been in the news for his advocacy of higher taxes. But is government — politics, in other words — the best way to allocate resources?
In Kansas, P.J. O’Rourke promotes free markets
Author and satirist P.J. O’Rourke appeared in Kansas to talk about liberty and free markets.
Pickens: It’s all about me, and MSNBC doesn’t notice
Appearing on the MSNBC morning program Morning Joe, energy investor T. Boone Pickens let us know that despite his no-nonsense business-like approach to supporting what he believes to be in America’s best interests, it’s really all about him and what profits him. But program hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski didn’t catch that.