Liberty
College Bubble Hawks vs. Bubble Deniers
There have been a lot of enduring debates over the decades: Ginger vs. Mary Anne, Tastes Great vs. Less Filling, Global Warming Alarmism vs. Global Warming Denial. Generally, people have…
2000s United States housing bubble
Liberty
The high cost of our obsession with home ownership
America’s obsession with home 0wnership goes back to the New Deal and continues to do us a great deal of damage. So argues Ryan McMaken in this Mises Daily piece. …
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Catawba County property revaluation set for 2015
North Carolina state law mandates a revaluation of property every eight years, although many counties have decided to revaluate on a more frequent basis. Catawba County has adopted a four-year…
Liberty
Professor Ikeda finds that higher ed has been oversold
I regularly post the well-reasoned Freeman articles of economics professor Sandy Ikeda here. I particularly like this one because it deals with the subject of higher education. He sees the…
Liberty
The Chinese have created a huge economic bubble
So argues David Stockman in this piece. Bubbles happen when governments bring about widespread malinvestment — investments in buildings, factories, universities, and so on — that cannot be sustained given…
Regulation
Leef calls Dodd-Frank just one bad law in a long-running series
Regular readers in this forum know that the federal Dodd-Frank financial regulation has created plenty of problems. George Leef examines in his latest Forbes column the flawed political process that…
Liberty
A good movie about the Federal Reserve?
Jim Bruce has made a movie entitled Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve. In this post, economic professor J. Huston McCulloch praises it, although with some reservations — especially…
Education
Leef’s latest Forbes column reports inappropriate response to bursting college bubble
George Leef probes for Forbes readers the higher education establishment’s latest response to the bursting of the college bubble. The College Board’s recent report Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher…
Liberty
Why Will It Work, Now?
Back between 2004 and 2007, the City of Asheville received HUD funding for an organization that no longer exists to help people turned down by conventional lenders get mortgages. That…
Education
Leef educates Forbes readers about the next bubble on the verge of bursting
We’ve seen the sad results from the bursting of the national housing bubble. George Leef’s latest Forbes column warns readers about the dangers associated with another bubble. The housing bubble…
Liberty
An explanation for the Obamacare site’s debacle
In this Forbes column, Grace-Marie Turner argues that one reason for the massive failure of the Obamacare site is that it was designed to hide costs from “shoppers” until after…
Regulation
Urban planning has worked so well, it’s now heading to the suburbs
John Hayward at Human Events responds to a new rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that would allow the federal government to track diversity in neighborhoods…