The Event is In the Hand of God
As the delegates filtered in the week and a half prior to the start of the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787,...
Opinion
A Non-Prediction
When people learn that you are an economist, they often want you to predict which way the economy is going. There seem to...
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Finally, a Sensible Solution to Unemployment
When Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in Bloomberg.com that “the biggest problem with the labor market...
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Why Reich Is Wrong
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered his solutions for ending the Great Recession in the New York Times, he repeated the same...
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Obama’s New Stimulus Target: Infrastructure
If it is true, as Albert Einstein is alleged to have said, that insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over...
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Back-to-school Advice
My first recommendation is very basic. Don’t cut class. As Woody Allen stated, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.” And it’s...
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Overdose: Video Exposé on Bailout Bubble
The independent British exposé film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis released last spring has been made available to Internet viewers on YouTube for...
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George Clooney’s “The American”
George Clooney’s newest film, The American, directed by Anton Corbijn, is a sort of combination of Clooney’s past films Up in the Air...
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The Conspiracy That Is the Federal Reserve
How much money do you have in your wallet? I’m not trying to be nosey. I want to make a very important point...
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When You Know You’re Bankrupt …
You simply can’t make ends meet. You don’t want to spend more than you’re making, but the income is significantly smaller than the...
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The Mosque Controversy
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story...
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The Hazards of Ensuring Safety
Back when my family vacationed in Miami Beach, it wasn’t uncommon for the hotels abutting the shoreline to have high diving boards. I...
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Preserving the Past for the Present
In a day when the limited constitutional government our Founders bequeathed to us has been disfigured almost beyond recognition, when the principles of...
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Something for Nothing
Perhaps the most difficult economic lesson is that we live in a world of scarcity and everything has a cost. Scarcity exists whenever...
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Thomas Jefferson’s Quran
On Friday, August 13th, President Obama welcomed members of the Muslim community to the White House to celebrate the Islamic holiday of Ramadan...
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