Tagged: Economics and Financial Services

Obama’s Plan is Debt Disaster April 7, 2009Richard K. Vedder Throughout America, unemployment is high and rising, and an activist president wants to do something about it, also using economic decline as an opportunity to...

Regulators Force a “Good Neighbor” out of Florida March 23, 2009Lawrence S. Powell On January 27, State Farm Florida Insurance Company, the largest provider of homeowners insurance in the Sunshine State, gave formal notice...

Twelve Questions As We Face the Crisis February 27, 2009Carlos Alberto Montaner What is going to happen with the stimulus, that injection of almost $800 billion into the economy? It’s not going to work....

Obama and the Wrong Road February 9, 2009Carlos Alberto Montaner Last Jan. 9, President Obama declared that “there is no disagreement that we need action by our government, [for example,] a recovery plan that...

The Obama Stimulus Plan Won’t Work January 22, 2009Dominick T. Armentano President Barack Obama and his economic team will soon attempt to convince Congress that spending upwards of $1 trillion tax dollars (more or less)...

What Do the New Deal and World War II Tell Us About the Prospects for a Stimulus Package? November 21, 2008Price V. Fishback Everybody is talking about the stimulus package, and many are citing...

Trials and Tribulations of a Hybrid System October 31, 2008Anthony de Jasay Over the anguished cries and resigned sighs of its victims, the financial storm that broke out in August 2007 also echoes with a...

Economic Illiteracy Is Not the Change We Need October 29, 2008Art Carden Barack Obama is campaigning for president under the slogan “Change We Need.” Unfortunately, many of his economic policy proposals would move us in...

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 was one of 166...

Our Trillion-Dollar Cathedral in the Arctic October 3, 2008Robert H. Nelson The McCain campaign has been busy educating the new vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, in the nuances of American foreign policy. Palin may...