Tag: Economics and Financial Services

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 […]

Should Bailed-Out Homeowners be Required to Pay Restitution? March 17, 2009Stan J. Liebowitz The U.S. public is outraged at the $165 million in bonuses paid to employees of insurance giant […]

Avoid Japan’s Mistakes March 8, 2009Benjamin Powell Those who think the $787 billion “stimulus” bill will chase the blues from the economy should look at Japan’s experience in the 1990s, […]

Budgetary Obamanomics March 7, 2009William F. Shughart II Fresh from signing the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, President Obama presented his proposed fiscal year 2010 budget before a […]

Recession and Recovery Six Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy March 5, 2009Robert Higgs As the recession has deepened and the financial debacle has passed from one flare-up to another […]

Let Those Banks Fail! March 4, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Some big guns on the right have joined the left in calling for the temporary nationalization of America’s troubled banks. Among […]

Erasing Red Ink Slash the Defense Budget March 2, 2009Ivan Eland A front page article in the New York Times starts out with the sentence: “The budget that President Obama […]

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 […]

Venezuela’s Bright Side February 18, 2009Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Hugo Chavez’s victory in Sunday’s constitutional referendum in Venezuela will allow him to run for re-election indefinitely, but it does not mean […]

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,] […]