Many decry Obamacare as the death of our republic. Such esteemed thinkers as Thomas Sowell pronounced it a turning point in our dismantlement. Dr. Sowell is a hero and...
As health reform again dominates our public discourse many pundits have highlighted how socializing medicine will exacerbate our already precarious budget concerns. Much...
Every day, workers change jobs. Businesses start or fail. New products render old products obsolete. People relocate to start afresh. These micro-level disruptions are...
From Government Square in Cincinnati, I often sit surrounded by impressive displays of federal invasiveness, and muse that we picked the wrong Roman dictator. The...
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." Alexis de Tocqueville
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Demagogues in Washington are thrilled to ply their vote-buying wiles promising to punish greedy rich villains, but the wealthy are not the evil caricatures of popular...
We all have formative experiences that usher us from the idealism of youth into the realism of maturity. One such event occurred long ago as an amateur boxing coach. I...
As economic activity is increasingly orchestrated by politicians and central-bankers, it is important to understand their prevailing economic philosophies. Washington...
Lurking behind the health reform chatter lays a perplexing piece of regulation nicknamed Cap and Trade. This legislation would decrease our carbon emissions 3% from 2005...
Should the Fed begin raising rates and extracting excess reserves? In late 2008, our minders diagnosed a credit crunch prescribing massive liquidity injections to make...
Many analysts decried the various Bush/Obama stimulus bills with the observation that deficits crowd out private investment. When Washington borrows money merely to...