About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
Congress Asks IRS to Investigate AARP
Rep. David Reichert (R-Wash., left) along with two other House members has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the American Association of...
Supreme Court Just Might Upset Rent Controls in New York City
When R.S. Radford, a principal attorney for the public interest law firm Pacific Legal Foundation, learned about the ruling against a property owner...
Senator Tom Coburn’s Annual “Wastebook” Just Released
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced his annual report, "2011 Wastebook,” noting, “This report details 100 of the countless unnecessary, duplicative, or just plain...
Thanks to Market Innovation Americans Live Better for Less
According to economist Mark J. Perry a consumer doing some Christmas shopping in December 1964 with a budget of $750 could have purchased...
Each Chevy Volt Costs Taxpayers $250,000
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy just released a study showing that by the time all federal and state loans, grants, subsidies, and...
“The Economist” Rewrites History
In last Saturday’s print edition of The Economist magazine (left), staff writers attempted to compare today’s Internet with the publication of Martin Luther’s...
China’s Economic Implosion Accelerates
On Monday, Gordon Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China and regular contributor at Forbes.com, was interviewed on Yahoo’s Daily Ticker,...
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il Dead at 69
North Korea’s official government-controlled media announced that the country’s “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-Il, died on Saturday at age 69 from “physical and mental...
Is the Economy Slowly Gaining Momentum?
Zachary Karabell, writing at The Daily Beast on Thursday, claimed that the latest numbers on the US’s economy were showing some modest improvement....
Bill of Rights Day: a Day of Celebration or of Mourning?
The Cato Institute’s newspaper ad reminding citizens that December 15th was Bill of Rights Day summarized the desperate shape those first ten amendments to the...
Licensing Tour Guides is Unconstitutional, says the Institute for Justice
In its press release on Tuesday the Institute for Justice announced it is going to bat for the freedom of tour guides in...
Trump Cancels as Debate Moderator, Claiming Republicans Blackmailed Him
Donald Trump’s announcement on YouTube on Tuesday night that he was cancelling the Republican presidential candidate debate scheduled for December 27 tried to pin...
Gresham’s Law at Work: Pennies and Nickels Are Disappearing
When Kyle Bass defended his decision on BBC Radio Hard Talk on November 17th to purchase 20 million nickels, he was just putting Gresham’s...
Dependency on Government Continues to Grow
Conservative economist Robert Higgs' (pictured at left) warnings about the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Dependence on Government were already outdated when they were published...
The European Union Agreement: “Too Little, Too Late”?
As reported by Annika Breidthardt for RealClearMarkets.com, the latest European crisis summit that ended last weekend resulted in “a historic agreement to draft...