Fewer jobs, lower incomes courtesy of Obamacare–Dodd-Frank style. Regulator Without Peer Anyone wondering why the U.S. economy can’t seem to grow at its usual pace should examine one product category where production is booming: federal regulation. Washington set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the Federal Register. While […]
2014 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Award Winner
On May 21, Cato Institute will honor Leszek Balcerowicz with the 2014 Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty. Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, will receive the 2014 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a $250,000 biennial award presented to an individual for achievement in promoting freedom and individual liberty. Balcerowicz has been […]
Here is How Obamacare is Going to Implode
Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon exposes the fraud of Obamacare signups. Barack Obama wants you to know he enrolled 7.5 million Americans through Obamacare’s health insurance Exchanges. What he doesn’t want you to know is how. Federal courts may soon rule that President Obama induced the majority of those enrollees to enroll by offering them taxpayer […]
Congress Must Repeal REAL ID
Here Cato Institute’s Jim Harper lets Americans know about the Zombie national ID. Like some sort of zombie from a 1950s B-movie, the REAL ID Act shambles forward, awaiting the day when some national emergency can bring it back to life. In the District of Columbia, the city government has announced that they will begin […]
Worldwide Nuclear Energy Update
Germany will phase out nuclear, and France has lost it’s zeal for nuclear. Here at home, cheap natural gas has pushed nuclear to the back burner. But in China, nuclear is full speed ahead, as it is with coal. MIT Technology Review has all the latest intelligence here.
The War Dogs Got 90,000 Americans Killed in Korea and Vietnam
Here Pat Buchanan outlines this astounding number. The United States, Pat explains, has today no vital interest in Syria, Crimea, Iraq, Afghanistan, the South China Sea, or the Senkaku Islands. And Mr. Buchanan correctly notes that countries all over the world want America to come and fight their wars. On our TV talk shows and […]
Is a Serious Washington Foreign Policy Blunder Just Ahead?
Washington does not want to drive Russia and China together. China is nervous about Russia’s aggression in the Crimea. Cato Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter provides detailed perspective and a warning. Henry Kissinger once observed that it should be a crucial objective of U.S. foreign policy to make sure that Washington’s relations with Beijing and Moscow […]
Fewer and Fewer New Highs: Is the Bubble Ready to Pop?
Misguided Putin Aggression Sends Russian Stocks Down 16% YTD
The best way to deal with Putin’s aggression, inspired by Eurasianist Alexander Dugin, is to drive Russian asset values sharply downward while isolating Russia and its oligarchs from international financial institutions. There is also no debate that a plan to drive oil prices downward would have a powerful negative impact on Russia. On a somewhat […]
A Path to Permanent Residency (Green Card), Yes. Amnesty No.
Here is the view from the Cato Institute. If you think immigration reform is at an impasse, you’re wrong. Yes, a massive legislation like the bill passed by the Senate last June won’t be voted by the House this year, but this roadblock, strong as it may appear, does not block reform from happening. A bipartisan compromise […]
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