Tag: Economics and Financial Services

Tax Panel Missed the Math on Sales Tax October 16, 2008William F. Shughart II Part 2 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5   The public learned at least one valuable lesson from the controversy […]

Barbour's Tax Panel Missed a Golden Opportunity October 15, 2008William F. Shughart II Part 1 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5 The commission appointed by Gov. Haley Barbour earlier this year […]

Rediscovering Latin America October 15, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—I spent a good chunk of the last year and a half working on a documentary series covering contemporary Latin American history for […]

Why This Bailout is as Bad as the Last One October 14, 2008Jeffrey A. MironCNN.com Editor’s note: Jeffrey A. Miron is senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University. A libertarian, he […]

Central Bankers Still Don’t Get It October 14, 2008George Selgin Who can forget the end of “Planet of the Apes” when Charlton Heston, kneeling before the half-buried remains of the Statue […]

Herbert Hoover Redux October 13, 2008Ivan Eland Herbert Hoover converted a mundane recession into the greatest economic disaster in modern history—the Great Depression. Unfortunately for all of us, George W. Bush […]

The “Ill Wind” of Government Policy October 10, 2008Jeffrey J. Pompe As Texans continue to repair the damage from Hurricane Ike, Southeastern U.S. coastal residents can be thankful that the hurricane […]

The Great Escape from the Great Depression October 8, 2008Robert HiggsThe Freeman Questions about the Great Depression may be usefully framed as pertaining to three distinct issues: the Great Contraction, […]

Whose Fault was It? October 8, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—As was the case with the 1929 crash that ushered in the Great Depression, the current financial meltdown is giving rise […]

The Bailout of Abominations October 6, 2008Robert Higgs As a rule,we may assume that any statute containing the word “emergency” in its title, preamble, or statement of purposes is a […]