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April 23, 2008
If you’re not too concerned about global warming, you’re probably a regular American. If you think, however, that it’s on par with World War II as a threat to the nation, you’re the managing editor of Time magazine.
Al Gore’s “We” ad…
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April 9, 2008
Candidates for president of the United States are being judged on their “plans” for the economy, health care, retirement, housing, etc.
However, in 1920 the renowned Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises published “Socialism,” in which he…
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February 27, 2008
Some in the media try claim that we are in the beginnings of a recession in an attempt to make the case for larger government intervention in the economy. It is instructive to consider an era when there was a truly severe economic downturn, the…
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February 20, 2008
You know the presidential race is in full rhetorical swing when candidates are rallying people against a dangerous enemy of America. It’s time to play on the most basic of voters’ instincts: fear and hate.
The enemy in question has a…
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January 30, 2008
What’s messier and more shameless than candidates campaigning to save the economy? Media coverage of that economy – the one all the candidates want to “stimulate.” The media coverage that’s driving people’s votes.
Despite journalists and…
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January 23, 2008
Amy Robach, a daytime anchor at MSNBC, recently reported on the “Today” show that “everyone’s talking about a recession.” The Business and Media Institute found that the broadcast media mentioned the economy or a recession in 54 stories during…
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November 11, 2009
In a recent Newsweek article, senior editor Michael Hirsh quoted Larry Summers who said: “Large swaths of economics are going to have to be rethought on the basis of what's happened.” Summers is correct that the recent credit crisis and recession…
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July 15, 2009
Nearly 90 years ago Ludwig von Mises, one of the founders of the Austrian school of economics, pointed out that once government intervenes in a market it creates unintended consequences that lead to further government intervention. This process…
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June 3, 2009
If you “bitched about pundits shaping the debate and, possibly, the election outcomes” in 2008, then Jack Cafferty has the following message for you: “go to hell.”
It’s par for the course as the CNN anchor serves as judge, jury and executioner for…
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January 27, 2009
The solution to the current economic downturn as put forth by the majority in Congress and touted by most of the news media is for the federal government to enact a massive “stimulus package.”
This stimulus package will be weighted towards federal…
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