About: Steven J. DuBord

Bad Economics & Medicine

ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel write that the United...

Bretton Woods

While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal, but what will happen this time?...

The War on Christmas

Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them from America. ...

Free-market Thinkers

With bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty? ...

Piling Bailouts Upon Bailouts

ITEM: The New York Times for October 31 reported: "As the Treasury Department prepares a $40 billion program to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure, it confronts a difficult challenge:...

The Bailout and the Constitution

The $700 billion bank bailout plan will use taxpayer money to purchase troubled assets. How does this stack up against the limited federal powers granted by the Constitution? ...

The Hard Truth of Hard Money

In our Republic's youth, presidential candidates openly debated central banking, and Andrew Jackson even won election as a "hard-money" advocate. Today's economic crisis requires a similar return to sound...