Tagged: Economics and Financial Services

An old coworker stopped by the office today. For the most part, I like the people I've worked with at various organizations, but this guy is one of my all time favorites. It was...

Ariel Dillon of the Independent Institute on Bush's Steel Tariffs Not the First Instance of Hypocrisy on Free Trade: Now that the World Trade Organization has rejected the U.S. appeal to preserve steel tariffs...

Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven of Cato Institute on 'Conservative' Bush Spends More than 'Liberal' Presidents Clinton, Carter: The Bush administration's newly released budget projections reveal an anticipated budget deficit of $450 billion...

Kit J. Nichols, Senior Policy Manager at Pioneer Institute on Business Innovations For City Living: Zipcar (PDF) Perhaps you’ve seen them—hip new cars with the telltale green dot on the door, zipping around the...

David Appell writing for Scientific American on Hot Words: A claim of nonhuman-induced global warming sparks debate: In a contretemps indicative of the political struggle over global climate change, a recent study suggested that...

Associated Press/MSNBC on House votes to ban Net bet transfers: THE VOTE BANNING Americans from using credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers to pay for online betting transactions passed 319-104, a victory as...

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan has announced his willingness to serve another term should President Bush nominate him. It's neither here nor there, just FYI.

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett has an interesting idea. He's sponsored legislation that would change tax day from April 15 to the first Monday in November. The concept being that folks would better remember the economic...

Americans for Tax Reform is going all out against internet sales taxes. Click here to send a letter to your Senators and Member of Congress advocating a renewal of the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom...

Americans for Tax Reform is fighting against another useless bailout of the government sponsored enterprise nightmare known as Amtrak. You can lend your voice to their cause here by clicking on “NO more Amtrak...