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Government efforts to make things “affordable” instead typically make things worse. Prices are rising the fastest in industries receiving the largest government efforts to make them affordable. Programs to make…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column features an open letter to politicians interested in helping improve their constituents’ lives. Look folks, I know that when you say you want to do…
Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog documents a disturbing story associated with the U.S. Justice Department’s recent mortgage-fraud settlements with the nation’s big banks. So far, Left…
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Hans Bader writes here about a new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that forcefully says (unusually so in academic papers) that the CRA…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a letter responding to a recent editorial on the criminalization of banking decisions. In it, the writer dispels the myth that it was too much…
It’s entitled The Message of Massachusetts and it nails the truth: contra Rahm Emanuel, a crisis is a terrible thing to exploit. (Well, a terrible thing for statists to exploit;…
Nancy Pelosi and her ilk fear and hate the constitutionality question like a vampire fears and hates garlic (at least, I think that’s the tale). If Americans started to take…
In this City Journal article, Edward Pinto writes about the economic damage that has been done by the Community Reinvestment Act — that piece of political grandstanding that undermined bank…
Where does ACORN get its money? Overwhelmingly, from two sources — tax dollars given to it by leftist politicians and through extortion. Yes, extortion, as Professor Thomas DiLorenzo explains in…
You’ll not be surprised to learn that free-market thinker Thomas Woods rejects the arguments emanating from the Left that suggest unfettered markets created our current economic woes. But you might…
The leftist line that our current economic woes are due to capitalism has been heard over and over ever since the implosion began in 2007. The Feb. 13 issue of…
In the new issue of Forbes, Steve has this article on the economic situation and what the government needs to do about it. Going for the jugular, he advocates mandating…