by Dan Mitchell | Jan 28, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market
When people ask me about global warming, or climate change, or whatever they’re calling it now, I freely admit that I’m not a climatologist and thus have no informed opinion on whether the planet is warming due to human activity (or whether this, on net,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 25, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Privacy
Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz have a great column in USA Today explaining why we should let private companies be in charge of airline security. As a frequent traveler, I wish this would happen, but governments rarely give up power once they have expanded into a new...
by Geoffrey MacLeay | Jan 24, 2010 | Economic Growth, Free Market, Taxation
In a National Review Online article, Kevin Williamson notes that a proposed federal banking tax seems purely inspired by vilification politics, but will none-the-less put American banks at a very real competitive disadvantage in the global market: The new proposed tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
As reported by the Financial Times, Sebastian Pinera, the brother of Cato’s Jose Pinera, was elected President of Chile this weekend. The press is viewing Pinera’s election through the right-left lens of Latin American politics, but this is a bit...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
Do stores in low-income neighborhoods charge higher prices because of racism, or greed? That’s what some academics argue, but Tom Sowell points out that there are real economic factors that drive pricing decisions. The example below is about stores, but his IBD...
