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Is Obama Turning America into a Banana Republic?
I meant to write about this article when it first came out, but it got buried in my inbox. That being said, this Washington Times column by Richard Rahn makes an… Read more
Super-Charging the IRS with Government-Run Healthcare
I blogged a cartoon joking about Obamacare as a Trojan Horse for the IRS, but with each passing day we are learning new – and always unpleasant – details about… Read more
Greek Chutzpah
There’s an old joke that if you owe a bank $10,000, you have a problem, but if you owe a bank $10,000,000, the bank has a problem. The Greek government… Read more
American and German Taxpayers Should Be Rioting, not Greek Moochers
My blood pressure spiked after reading this story from the UK-based Times. The Greeks are rioting in the streets because they want our money (i.e., an IMF bailout) and they… Read more
Obama's Hypocritical Class Warfare
The President had another “spread the wealth” slip of the tongue the other day, this time remarking that “at some point you have made enough money.” Some have commented that… Read more
Ny Trip to Spain
GreeI arrived in Madrid last week for a speech to the annual Convention of Independent Financial Advisors, and it is somehow fitting that Spain was downgraded by Standard and Poor’s as I… Read more
Excellent Primer on the Financial Crisis
Russ Roberts of George Mason University has written a very good article for the Mercatus Center explaining – for economists and non-economists – how government intervention created distortions in the… Read more
More Much-Needed VAT Bashing
A former Governor of Delaware, Pete DuPont, explains that a value-added tax means bigger government and slower growth. This issue is very important since Obama clearly is trying to set… Read more
Government Is a Racket to Enrich Bureaucrats and Rip Off the Rest of Us
Every experience I’ve had with speed cameras has been negative. That’s hardly a surprise, but the other common experience is that they always are set up in places where the… Read more
More Regulation Will Increase Systemic Risk
One bonus of speaking at the Global Financial Services Centres Conference in Dublin last week is that I got to listen to Paul Atkins, a former Commissioner at the Securities… Read more
