Economics
Economics, Politics & Rights
"Fair Tax" Looks Ugly in the Details
Ari Armstrong October 1, 2011
No wonder so many Americans want to abolish the income tax and the IRS along with it. The IRS pries into our earnings, our daily spending habits, even our mileage records. The nightmarishly indecipherable tax code imposes huge compliance costs, along with the risks of arbitrary persecution for innocent errors.…
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Bourgeois Virtues, by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Richard M. Salsman August 20, 2011
Richard M. Salsman reviews The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, by Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Economics
Interview with Andy Kessler about the Virtue of Eating People
Daniel Wahl May 20, 2011
Daniel Wahl interviews Andy Kessler, author of Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs.
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Sleuth Investor, by Avner Mandelman
Daniel Wahl February 20, 2011
Daniel Wahl reviews The Sleuth Investor: Uncover the Best Stocks Before They Make Their Move, by Avner Mandelman.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Economics
Economics in Atlas Shrugged
Richard M. Salsman February 20, 2011
Shows how the novel brilliantly dramatizes the essential principles of this science along with the fallacies involved in denying those principles.
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Dhandho Investor, by Mohnish Pabrai
Daniel Wahl November 20, 2010
Daniel Wahl reviews The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns, by Mohnish Pabrai.
Economics
An Interview with Andrew Schiff about Fishing Nets, Hut Gluts, and other Economic Matters
Craig Biddle November 20, 2010
The author and investor discusses his book, the state of economy, the cause of America’s financial problems, and investment possibilities under the circumstances.
Economics, Reviews
Review: How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
Daniel Wahl August 20, 2010
Daniel Wahl reviews How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes, by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff.
Economics, Politics & Rights
Government Intervention: It's Not Just Bad for Business
Daniel Wahl July 20, 2010
In a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily, Thomas Sowell explains why Obama’s economic policies are bad for the economy: The current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a feature article about businesses that are just holding on to huge sums of money. They say, for example, that the pharmaceutical company…
Economics
There's Nothing "Bright" About the Stimulus Bill
Daniel Wahl June 18, 2010
Forbes recently published an argument against the stimulus bill, focusing on its so-called “dark side.” A little over a year ago the Obama administration passed a staggering $787 billion stimulus package designed to rescue the economy. More than half of that money has now been spent, and the economy is…