New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Demonstrates Need for New Direction in Health Care

by CF&P | Jul 10, 2012 | News, Press Releases

Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation For Immediate Release Tuesday, July 10, 2012 202-285-0244 www.freedomandprosperity.org New CF&P “Economics 101” Video Demonstrates Need for New Direction in Health Care (Washington, D.C., Tuesday, July 10, 2012) The...

What Does It Mean When Obama and His Former Top Economist both Reject Obamanomics?

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 19, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Taxation

To answer the question in the title, it means you need to read the fine print. This is because we have a president who thinks the government shouldn’t confiscate more than 20 percent of a company’s income, but he only gives that advice when he’s in Ghana. And the same...

So-Called Paycheck Fairness Act Would Allow Government to Second-Guess Private Markets

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Regulations

Back in 2010, I cited the superb work of Christina Hoff Summers as she explained that we should let markets determine wages rather than giving that power to a bunch of bean-counting bureaucrats. She wrote that article because leftists at the time were pushing a...

In the Lake Wobegon Fantasy World, all Investments Make Money

by Dan Mitchell | May 23, 2012 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market

I sometimes wonder whether journalists have the slightest idea of how capitalism works. In recent weeks, we’ve seen breathless reporting on the $2 billion loss at JP Morgan Chase, and now there’s a big kerfuffle about the falling value of Facebook stock. In response...

The Moral Case for Capitalism and Small Government

by Dan Mitchell | May 5, 2012 | Blogs, Free Market

We know that the United States and most other developed nations are in deep trouble if we leave government policy on auto-pilot. And we know the painful day of reckoning will arrive even faster if we continue the Bush-Obama policies of expanding the burden of the...