Commentary
Business & Economics
A swift re-tort: How to fight lawsuit abuse
America’s economy remains in terrible shape and federal lawmakers are trying to kick-start a recovery by spending money. A better strategy would be to reform the country’s inefficient tort system, which is failing to promptly compensate true victims. Instead, meritless lawsuits clog courtrooms while outsized monetary awards cripple businesses and ...
Commentary
Changing the way our schools are financed
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10, 2009 California’s fiscal outlook continues to worsen. Concern is now mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association, along with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In ...
Business & Economics
Time for a Reagan Smackdown
I’ve been trying all the known anger-management techniques to refrain from commenting on the Jeb Bush-inspired “get over Reagan” comments from the other day. This is really rich, coming from the awesomely successful Bush family, given the way President Bush 1 squandered Reagan’s legacy by raising taxes in 1990, and ...
Commentary
Tax-credit scholarships offer school choice
The Sacramento Bee (CA), May 7, 2009 How many parents would send their child to a better school if they could? A boy I know was going to school in a gang-infested neighborhood, kept getting in trouble and was suspended several times. His parents wanted to send him to a ...
Commentary
Wall Street Journal Joins the Media Chorus on “Universal” Health Care
Right off the bat, the reporter notes the key difference in outcomes for the two unemployed men: the American lost his health benefits and the German did not. I’m no fan of employer-based health “benefits”, largely because they artificially inflate the number of uninsured. So, I have long advocated tax ...
Agriculture
California State’s Bankruptcy and its Economic Future: A report from a conference
Liberty on the Mind (an offshoot of Liberty on the Rocks for conferences) organized a conference on the subject of the fiscal crisis of the state of California at Santa Clara University on 27th April 2009. As a grassroots organization, LOTR attracts members who are capable of animated public policy ...
Business & Economics
An inevitable blast
Economist Robert P Murphy at the blog Free Advice must have heard me screeching with Total Mogambo Disrespect (TMD) about Congress and Barack Obama deficit-spending almost US$2 trillion this year, and he says, “If fiscal policy is a disaster, monetary policy is even worse.” I interrupt and say, “You said ...
Commentary
Failing D.C. Students
The Gadfly, May 6, 2009 The Washington, D.C. public school system is among the nation’s worst. In fact, it’s relatively uncontroversial to say that public schools in D.C. are the worst in the nation—despite the District spending over $15,000 per pupil in its public school system, by far the highest ...
Business & Economics
CNBC News – NY Fed Chair Resignation Watch
Airtime: Wed. May 6 2009 | 4:22 PM ET Fmr. Goldman Sachs CEO Steve Friedman, now chairman of the board of the NY Fed, made unethical purchases of Goldman Sachs stock after they became a bank holding company regulated by the NY Fed. CNBC’s Larry Kudlow is calling for his ...
Business & Economics
Obama shifts personal responsibility to Washington
America has been irresponsible for too long, runs the rhetoric from the Obama White House, and that must be rectified. To that end, the president calls his budget blueprint, which outlines his spending and taxing priorities for the next 10 years, “A New Era of Responsibility.” But calling something responsible ...
A swift re-tort: How to fight lawsuit abuse
America’s economy remains in terrible shape and federal lawmakers are trying to kick-start a recovery by spending money. A better strategy would be to reform the country’s inefficient tort system, which is failing to promptly compensate true victims. Instead, meritless lawsuits clog courtrooms while outsized monetary awards cripple businesses and ...
Changing the way our schools are financed
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10, 2009 California’s fiscal outlook continues to worsen. Concern is now mounting over the impact the state’s budget deficit will have on education funding. The California Teachers Association, along with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, claims California’s per-pupil funding now ranks 47th nationally. In ...
Time for a Reagan Smackdown
I’ve been trying all the known anger-management techniques to refrain from commenting on the Jeb Bush-inspired “get over Reagan” comments from the other day. This is really rich, coming from the awesomely successful Bush family, given the way President Bush 1 squandered Reagan’s legacy by raising taxes in 1990, and ...
Tax-credit scholarships offer school choice
The Sacramento Bee (CA), May 7, 2009 How many parents would send their child to a better school if they could? A boy I know was going to school in a gang-infested neighborhood, kept getting in trouble and was suspended several times. His parents wanted to send him to a ...
Wall Street Journal Joins the Media Chorus on “Universal” Health Care
Right off the bat, the reporter notes the key difference in outcomes for the two unemployed men: the American lost his health benefits and the German did not. I’m no fan of employer-based health “benefits”, largely because they artificially inflate the number of uninsured. So, I have long advocated tax ...
California State’s Bankruptcy and its Economic Future: A report from a conference
Liberty on the Mind (an offshoot of Liberty on the Rocks for conferences) organized a conference on the subject of the fiscal crisis of the state of California at Santa Clara University on 27th April 2009. As a grassroots organization, LOTR attracts members who are capable of animated public policy ...
An inevitable blast
Economist Robert P Murphy at the blog Free Advice must have heard me screeching with Total Mogambo Disrespect (TMD) about Congress and Barack Obama deficit-spending almost US$2 trillion this year, and he says, “If fiscal policy is a disaster, monetary policy is even worse.” I interrupt and say, “You said ...
Failing D.C. Students
The Gadfly, May 6, 2009 The Washington, D.C. public school system is among the nation’s worst. In fact, it’s relatively uncontroversial to say that public schools in D.C. are the worst in the nation—despite the District spending over $15,000 per pupil in its public school system, by far the highest ...
CNBC News – NY Fed Chair Resignation Watch
Airtime: Wed. May 6 2009 | 4:22 PM ET Fmr. Goldman Sachs CEO Steve Friedman, now chairman of the board of the NY Fed, made unethical purchases of Goldman Sachs stock after they became a bank holding company regulated by the NY Fed. CNBC’s Larry Kudlow is calling for his ...
Obama shifts personal responsibility to Washington
America has been irresponsible for too long, runs the rhetoric from the Obama White House, and that must be rectified. To that end, the president calls his budget blueprint, which outlines his spending and taxing priorities for the next 10 years, “A New Era of Responsibility.” But calling something responsible ...
