As President Obama’s second term nears its end he has begun a media tour emphasizing what he claims are the positive aspects of his policies. The complicit media, of course, have long worked to inflate…
Topic: economics
Health Care in Academia vs. the Real World
Four Harvard University students won the annual Econometrics World Championship (also known as the Econometric Game) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The annual event is organized by the University of Amsterdam and the VSAE (Association of…
There are Downsides to Tax Cuts?
One of the scholars at the recent Philadelphia Society conclave of conservative intellectuals found an unexpected downside to tax cuts. “Congress voted against Grover Cleveland’s tariff cuts arguing that government will become bigger because of…
Lenin’s Stubborn Facts
Lenin famously said that facts are stubborn things, and they are, no matter how much his fans in academia try to hide them. “Currently the public and academic view of markets is distorted,” Paul Dragos…
Forgotten History of America’s Economic Past
One of the nice things about going to a meeting of actual scholars, as opposed to academics who dominate most academic associations, is that you get to hear some forgotten history you might otherwise be…
A Man Called Adam Smith
If the Left thinks of Adam Smith at all, it is probably as a profile on neckties worn by their bete noires on the right, but genuine liberals might find him a worthy subject of…
Virginia Tech Students Claim Economics’ Bell Curve Author as Racist
Charles Murray, a respected conservative economist, co-wrote a book on the famous bell curve in economics. But, liberal Virginia Tech students are calling him racist. Photo by vlasta2 Photo by vlasta2
Did the Feds Mess Up the 2008 Recession?
That was the question on the minds of several economists at a panel discussion held at the Cato Institute recently. Daniel L. Thornton, former vice president and economic adviser for the Federal Reserve Bank of…
The Root of the Health Care Crisis
Find out what the root causes of both the health care and energy crises are in this video by the late M. Stanton Evans, eminent author.
Too Big to Fail is a Failure
Five years after President Obama signed it into law to address America’s financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act and the federal regulations that followed from it are relatively unknown by at least one-third of normal Americans….