Tag: Economics and Financial Services

Affordable Housing Laws Make Housing Less Affordable May 30, 2008Edward P. Stringham, Tom MeansSan Francisco Business Times What if our affordable housing laws actually increased the cost of housing by […]

Will the Real Eminent Domain Reform Please Stand Up May 29, 2008Edward J. Lopez Next week, California voters have the opportunity to reform the state’s eminent domain laws, which provide […]

Let the Market Manage the Oil Crisis May 27, 2008William F. Shughart II As the prices of food, fuel and other basic commodities continue to skyrocket, the tiny voice warning […]

A Market Adjustment is Coming—Oil Prices Are About to Fall May 28, 2008Dominick T. ArmentanoPress Journal (Vero Beach, FL) Bold economic predictions are dangerous, and I’ve been wrong before, but […]

Sell State Assets to Close Budget Gap by William F. Shugart II Gov. Schwarzenegger, facing new mountains of red ink, is trying to drum up support for his proposal to […]

Mexico’s Moment of Truth by Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON — It could be said that Latin America will come of age politically the day that Pemex, Mexico’s oil behemoth, ceases […]

Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com Nick Taylor’s new book, American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA (When FDR Put the Nation to Work), […]

Where’s the Food? by Alvaro Largas Llosa WASHINGTON — In the 1830s, Richard Cobden and John Bright started a campaign against the protectionist laws that were keeping food prices high […]

The Schizophrenia of U.S. Farm Policy by Ernest C. Pasour Jr., Randal R. Rucker The price of the new farm bill, final details of which are being hammered out by […]

The Other China by Alvaro Largas Llosa WASHINGTON — The Olympic torch relay has galvanized international public opinion against the communist regime in Beijing, not a bad thing considering that […]