Showing posts with label free enterprise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free enterprise. Show all posts

Janice Green: Free Enterprise Is Ultimate Empowerment

The power to prosper.    I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to attend to all issues during a campaign season.  However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women, especially young women, announcing their intentions to    ... MORE

John Stossel - Strangulation By Union

Chicago Teachers 1 School Children 0. The Chicago teachers strike is over, but the public didn't win. Schools will still transfer bad teachers to other schools because it's nearly impossible to fire them. When bad teachers go from school to school, principals call it "the dance of the lemons." It would be funny if those teachers didn't slowly wreck  ... MORE

Moorad Choudhry: In Defense Of The Free Market

The freedom to choose. I don’t imagine that too many of you would have heard of Easterhouse, a Manchester band from the 1980s that recorded some electrifying songs with a strong political content on the (also Manchester-based) Rough Trade label. They were never on Top of the Pops or MTV. I saw them live a couple of times, let's put it    ... MORE

Brook And Watkins: The Virtue Of Employee Layoffs

Hamstringing the ability to make profits. A CEO stands in front of his crumbling, century-old factory and speaks to his employees. “I promise that no matter what, I will never renovate this place. No matter how many worn-out items break, no matter how much our out-of-date machinery slows us down, no matter how many people tease us for clinging to   ... MORE

Larry Doyle: Is Free Enterprise Still Free?

You might want to ask Chick-fil-A.   I do not find it surprising that certain political leaders in our nation easily lash out in threatening fashion to those running a free enterprise. Why am I not surprised? In the “Uncle Sam” economy that permeates our nation, the violation of contracts and property rights has become increasingly prevalent. In that vein, we should  ... MORE

Pat Murphy: Looking Back At Milton Friedman

Tomorrow would have been Milton's 100th birthday.    Milton Friedman would have been 100 this month. Although physically tiny, his professional stature was large. When he died in 2006, the Economist described him as the “most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century.” A Nobel Prize-winner in 1976, Friedman was a    ... MORE

Cal Thomas: The Stossel Solution

It works if America is still about liberty. In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekly program. If ever there was "must see-TV," this is it. Stossel's show on Saturday, June 30 was a classic. It was called "Government,         ... MORE

Ira Stoll: Obama's Enemies Face Tax Scrutiny

Job creators critical of Obama are in the crosshairs. Billionaires thinking of becoming politically active on the right side of the political spectrum be warned: the press will want to know how much you pay in taxes. President Nixon tried to get the IRS to audit the taxes of his liberal political enemies. The press, the public, and historians rightfully  ... MORE

Why Free Enterprise Is About Morals, Not Materialism

by Arthur Brooks. It's not an easy time to be a free enterprise advocate in America. For years, we thought we had won. After all, almost no self-respecting public figures call themselves socialists anymore. With the advent of the New Democrats, even America's progressive party was on board with free markets and somewhat limited government. The Reagan  ... MORE

David Harsanyi: Create Wealth, Not Jobs

Free the private sector. Soon after the president dropped his ill-advised "the private sector is doing fine" gaffe, White House press secretary Jay Carney scolded the media for failing to frame the comment in the proper "context." Which is weird, because the context is the worst part. Yes, government "creates" jobs, often out of thin air. The   ... MORE

WSJ Op-Ed: Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama's Version

Profit-driven economy beats political favoritism.   President Obama is no fan of Mitt Romney-style "vulture" capitalism. So what's his alternative? All those Republicans grousing about the president's attacks on private equity might instead be seizing on this beautiful point of contrast. Mr. Obama, after all, is no mere mortal president. Even as he's    ... MORE