by CF&P | Oct 22, 2019 | News, Press Releases
For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 22, 2019 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org Coalition Opposes Granting Government Control Over Aluminum Reference Prices (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 22, 2019) Led by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Oct 18, 2019 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Inside Sources on October 17, 2019. A decision on whether to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank was delayed with the recent passage of a continuing resolution to provide funding for the government through November 21. Lobbyists for...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
The 2008 financial crisis was largely the result of bad government policy, including subsidies for the housing sector from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This video is 10 years old, but it does a great job of explaining the damaging role of those two government-created...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 16, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
The great French economist from the 1800s, Frederic Bastiat, famously explained that good economists are aware that government policies have indirect effects (the “unseen”). Bad economists, by contrast, only consider direct effects (the “seen”). Let’s look at the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Energy
From a macroeconomic perspective, President Obama’s so-called stimulus was a flop. The federal government borrowed and redistributed almost $1 trillion, yet the economy stagnated. From a microeconomic perspective, the faux stimulus may have been an even bigger...
