Tag: Economics and Financial Services

U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays? November 1, 2008Ernest C. Pasour Jr. The Economist labeled the recently enacted 2008 farm bill “A Harvest of Disgrace” (May 24, 2008). The five-year $307 […]

Mongers of Fear October 31, 2008Robert Higgs Robert Higgs’ scholarly specialty has been the study of how government grows exponentially in times of real or exaggerated crisis and rarely returns to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cristina’s Plunder October 29, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—I recently suggested that the U.S. government’s bailout of the financial system, which includes the de facto nationalization of several banks, would arouse populists […]

Every Crisis Becomes a Carnival of Opportunism October 27, 2008Robert Higgs As the financial crisis deepens and widens, a horde of supplicants is converging on the Treasury. Each of them has […]

A Gigantic Armed Robbery October 20, 2008Robert Higgs Amid the astonishing details of the Fed’s fierce money pumping, the Treasury’s partial nationalization of the banking industry, and the madcap exchange of […]

Correct Suggestions Made on Corporate Income Taxes October 19, 2008William F. Shughart II Part 5 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5   “Don’t tax me, don’t tax thee, tax that fellow […]

Targeting 'E-Tailers' May Not be Wise for State October 18, 2008William F. Shughart II Part 4 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5   If the states participating in the Orwellian “Streamlined […]

Panel Just Blew Smoke on Tobacco Taxes October 17, 2008William F. Shughart II Part 3 of 5 | 1 2 3 4 5   Taxes on tobacco yielded a paltry $55.6 million for […]