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Hugo Chavez’s rhetoric — and Obama’s
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes a keen letter from a reader who sees the parallels between the utopian, collectivistic blather of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and that of Barack Obama.…
Mary O'Grady
American journalist
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Venezuela, Argentina show us our future
Today’s WSJ has a most illuminating column by Mary Anastasia O’Grady on the economic troubles in Venezuela and Argentina where powerful, illiberal, interventionist governments are ruining the monetary system, scapegoating…
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Evidently Obama agrees with the Brezhnev Doctrine
Remember the Brezhnev Doctrine? It was the idea proclaimed by Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev that once a nation had been taken over by communism, it could never go back. Non-communist…
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More on the Argentine precedent
Mary Anastasia O’Grady devotes her WSJ column today to the situation in Argentina, a nation that is strangling itself with government interference with the liberty and property of the people.…
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Nations can regress
In this superb WSJ piece today, Mary Anastasia O’Grady takes a look at what has happened to Argentina, a nation that has gone (as she entitles the article) “From Breadbasket…
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Mexico and labor unions
Today’s Wall Street Journal features this enlightening article by Mary Anastasia O’Grady. The campaign talk among Obama and Clinton has it that companies are fleeing from states like Ohio to…
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New Index of Economic Freedom
The Wall Street Journal’s new Index of Economic Freedom is out and Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes about it here. The U.S. is ranked fifth, behind Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland and…
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Free trade is just awful
At least according to Vermont’s socialist senator Bernie Sanders, in a Wall Street Journal piece he wrote last week. As expected, he drew deadly counter-battery fire from people who understand…
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Own worst enemies
If you are interested in understanding why some countries remain poor — or even get poorer — a crucial factor is the ease or difficulty of entrepreneurship. Many countries in…
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The new Index of Economic Freedom
The Wall Street Journal’s new Index of Economic Freedom is out. The US comes in fourth, behind Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. Mary Anastasia O’Grady has a good column about…
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Economic Freedom
I guess incentives have truly helped us out at the national level. Yes, they’ve helped us out of the economic freedom top ten. At least that’s part of my story…