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November 21, 2006
Famed Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman died yesterday at age 94. Friedman embraced free-market principles of economics and believed that political freedom could only be accomplished with economic freedom. Here…
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November 20, 2006
As you drive to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving, just keep in mind you’re not paying enough in taxes for those roads you’re driving on.
That’s the viewpoint Larry Copeland of USA Today…
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November 20, 2006
Even death isn’t a great equalizer at The Washington Post. Two of America’s most well-known economists died in 2006 – John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. But there the similarities ended.
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November 20, 2006
“Just in time for Thanksgiving, turkey prices are up five cents on the pound.”
Substitute the words “gasoline” for “turkey” and “gallon” for “pound,” and you get NBC and CNN’s morning show…
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November 17, 2006
Workers of the world unite – on the pages of The Washington Post Business section. The Post made the gathering easy, describing a huge union campaign to organize janitorial workers in Houston as a battle of “a $5.25-an-hour…
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November 16, 2006
Cashing in objective reporting for editorial commentary, CNN business reporter Ali Velshi and anchor Miles O’Brien rang in the November 16 edition of “American Morning” with a few swipes at Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT…
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November 16, 2006
The same day the federal government opened re-enrollment for a costly drug benefit, Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) expanded its $4-generic drug plan and another competitor announced it would offer generic drugs for the same price.…
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November 15, 2006
It’s Congress’s money, but thankfully for the middle class, the Democrats will let you keep a bit more of it while raising taxes on “the rich” elsewhere. That was the message to CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s look at…
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November 15, 2006
Like claims the U.S. was responsible for 9/11 and Republicans were fixing gas prices, the media promoted the left-wing electronic vote-rigging conspiracy.
Now that the votes have been cast and…
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November 15, 2006
Don’t eat that! It doesn’t even matter what it is, somewhere someone on network news shows is probably telling you it’s “bad for you.”
If you believe them, almost everything meets that requirement. Caffeine. Sugar. Cereal. Meat. Alcohol.…