Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
Business & Economics
A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants
SACRAMENTO — When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk. By contrast, when a competitor, BrightSource Energy, filed ...
Business & Economics
Mountaineer Perspectives
As West Virginia celebrates its 146th birthday, residents ponder meaning, relevance of Montani Semper Liberi. Emblazoned upon the state flag and seal, the Latin phrase Montani Semper Liberi means “Mountaineers are always free.” Although West Virginians see the motto every time they look at a state flag, how often do ...
Business & Economics
When State Governments Compete for Doctors
Over the last few years, Texas has become an attractive state in which to practice medicine. It has high reimbursement from insurance companies, no state income tax, a low cost of living, and since 2003, a cap on non-economic damages for physicians. An amendment to the Texas state constitution was ...
Business & Economics
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Business & Economics
Democrats: Increase oil and tobacco taxes to close budget gap
The dedicated, selfless legislators in Sacramento have been working hard to sort out California’s budget crisis. And after months and months of negotiations, they’ve come up with solution: the taxpayers can make up the $24 billion budget shortfall. The Bee reported on June 15th that “[t]obacco and oil severance taxes ...
Business & Economics
Tort Law Tally – Letters, faxes, and e-mail
The ascendancy of Barack Obama has emboldened the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, now repackaged as the American Association for Justice. Recently, the trial lawyers sent the Obama team their 2009 legislative “wish list” as part of a broader strategy to expand litigation and deny that lawsuit reform cuts ...
Business & Economics
Why I Expect Serious Stagflation
However, even though unemployment rates will not be as severe, I still predict that we are in store for a miserable decade of economic stagnation. Given all of the huge assaults of the federal government into the private sector in just the past six months, I frankly don’t understand how ...
Commentary
How to Bankrupt a Country
What if you found that your personal income this year will be $55,000, but you will spend $100,000 — even though you had no prior savings? And what if next year’s picture looked similar, and the year after that, and so on? If President Obama were your personal financial advisor, ...
Business & Economics
Pajamas Media Interview: The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Great Depression
Ed Driscoll speaks with Prof. Robert P. Murphy of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the author of the new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Great Depression.
Unions using environmental rules to block non-union plants
Following The New York Times piece exposing greenmail – a union tactic to hijack green construction and implement wasteful and discriminatory project labor agreements on energy related projects in California (“Labor Sees Green in Solar Plants in California: A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants,” 6/19) ...
A Move to Put the Union Label on Solar Power Plants
SACRAMENTO — When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk. By contrast, when a competitor, BrightSource Energy, filed ...
Mountaineer Perspectives
As West Virginia celebrates its 146th birthday, residents ponder meaning, relevance of Montani Semper Liberi. Emblazoned upon the state flag and seal, the Latin phrase Montani Semper Liberi means “Mountaineers are always free.” Although West Virginians see the motto every time they look at a state flag, how often do ...
When State Governments Compete for Doctors
Over the last few years, Texas has become an attractive state in which to practice medicine. It has high reimbursement from insurance companies, no state income tax, a low cost of living, and since 2003, a cap on non-economic damages for physicians. An amendment to the Texas state constitution was ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal: Radio Interview
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, ...
Democrats: Increase oil and tobacco taxes to close budget gap
The dedicated, selfless legislators in Sacramento have been working hard to sort out California’s budget crisis. And after months and months of negotiations, they’ve come up with solution: the taxpayers can make up the $24 billion budget shortfall. The Bee reported on June 15th that “[t]obacco and oil severance taxes ...
Tort Law Tally – Letters, faxes, and e-mail
The ascendancy of Barack Obama has emboldened the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, now repackaged as the American Association for Justice. Recently, the trial lawyers sent the Obama team their 2009 legislative “wish list” as part of a broader strategy to expand litigation and deny that lawsuit reform cuts ...
Why I Expect Serious Stagflation
However, even though unemployment rates will not be as severe, I still predict that we are in store for a miserable decade of economic stagnation. Given all of the huge assaults of the federal government into the private sector in just the past six months, I frankly don’t understand how ...
How to Bankrupt a Country
What if you found that your personal income this year will be $55,000, but you will spend $100,000 — even though you had no prior savings? And what if next year’s picture looked similar, and the year after that, and so on? If President Obama were your personal financial advisor, ...
Pajamas Media Interview: The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Great Depression
Ed Driscoll speaks with Prof. Robert P. Murphy of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the author of the new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide To the Great Depression.
