by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Tom Palmer of the Altas Network has a very concise – yet quite devastating – video exposing the Keynesian fallacy that the destruction of wealth by calamaties such as earthquakes or terrorism is good for economic growth. Tom cites the work of Bastiat, who...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 5, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
USA Today reports on a study showing that payments to donors would significantly increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant. Such a system potentially could save thousands of lives per year, so it is perplexing that statists are so viscerally opposed. The...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Apr 2, 2010 | Europe, Free Market, Tax Competition
Nicholas Sarkozy spoke at Columbia University in New York on Monday and, as he has done before, demonstrated that everyone who calls themselves a conservative is not a free marketer. The French President pressed for an expansion of global financial bureaucracies and...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 31, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
I actually think this it is unfair to highlight Fidel Castro’s endorsement of Obamacare, but I’m in a grumpy mood because I’ve started a diet, so I’ll simply twist the knife a bit by noting that we probably could improve American healthcare by...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 25, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Health Care
While the politicians in Washington are poised to undermine the healthcare system with additional layers of taxes, spending, and regulation, Steven Chapman proposes to use markets to improve a part of the system that is suffering from a punitive form of price...
