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Ira Stoll: Five Facts About the Debt

Setting the economic record straight. Five under-appreciated points about the federal budget and debt ceiling:  1. Whenever I need to get my bearings in the debate over the debt, the deficit, or the debt ceiling, I go to the web site of the White House Office of Management and Budget and download historical table 1.3. The story it tells, in very round numbers ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer

White House economic ignorance on full display.  Here's what President Barack Obama said about our high rate of unemployment in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry: "The other thing that happened, though — and this goes to the point you were just making — is there are some structural issues with our economy, where a lot of businesses have learned to ... MORE

John Rossomando: Shining Light On Regulation Costs

Inhofe bill would would expose the high cost of regulation. Environmental regulations drain hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. economy each year, and it mostly goes unnoticed by the public. But proposed legislation from Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe could make the cost of such government interference more transparent. “Everybody here is    ... MORE

Jason Ivey: Little Green Tyrannists

Their goal is to make us all do with less.  Of tyrannies large and small, irritating me the most is the rise of the Green Police. They've reached heights previously held only by the subject of excessive taxation. First of all, the entire basis for green ideology and the ideologues following and enforcing it is based on a sham of a lie. Global cooling led to global warming led to climate  ... MORE

VIDEO: How Import Tariffs Make Everyone Poorer

Jonah Goldberg: The Terminology Of Taxation

Words mean things. Every political movement has its rhetorical strengths and weaknesses. The Right can wax poetic about liberty and freedom, the Left about the nobility of the poor and downtrodden. Nowhere do these differences come across more starkly than on the subject of taxation. Ask almost any Republican politician, from lobster-roll-eating northeastern “RINOs”  ... MORE

Ron Ross: Fatal Flaws Of Keynesian Economics

The failed economics behind the stimulus. It's now clear that the federal government's massive stimulus spending has not achieved its objectives. Why hasn't it? It's important that we have answers to that question. The stimulus was premised on the economic model known as Keynesianism: the intellectual legacy of the late English economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesianism... MORE

John Stossel: A Businessman For President?

Herman Cain aims for the White House. Herman Cain has an impressive record in the business world. He was a successful vice president at Pillsbury and Burger King, then he turned around the failing Godfather's Pizza. Is that the kind of person the country needs as president? Cain thinks so. I spoke with Cain last week. As a businessman, Cain saw firsthand the harm that government ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Middle Class Welfare

Mona Charen: It Should All Be Free

The high cost of turning wishes into rights. Free medicine! That's what Obamacare has brought you — or should bring you, at least according to CNN. The story's opening sentence set the tone: "Contraceptives, sterilization and reproductive education should be covered by health insurance plans with no cost to patients under the health reform law, a new report ... MORE

Mike Riggs: When Ignorance Is The Best Excuse

Powerful and ignorant are a toxic combination. When Rupert Murdoch went before the British Parliament yesterday to testify about the News of the World hacking scandal, he did not attempt to downplay the severity of his employees’ crimes. Rather, he apologized for the damage done and then said, "I didn’t know of it." When asked who, then, was responsible for the ... MORE

VIDEO: $100 BILLION OF MEDICAID AND MEDICARE FRAUD