Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Will 2009 Be the Year of Multiple Digital Identities?
Just days after microblogging company Twitter was hacked, a group of entrepreneurs and policy activists gathered at Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters to discuss “Privacy 2009: The Year Ahead.” The discussion, cohosted by Tech Policy Central, demonstrated that the privacy debate is starting to mature. Instead of inflexible government dictates for ...
Business & Economics
Serious Goals for California in the New Year
The past year certainly boasted some highlights, including the Olympics and a much-anticipated national election, but with 2008 behind us, the mood is not exactly upbeat in California. The economy has cooled off, and the “Golden State” finds itself staring down the barrel of a two-year deficit of $40 billion, ...
Business & Economics
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom San Francisco – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, today released The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, a report that highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the ...
Business & Economics
First, do no harm
Taking the temperature of the Colorado economy As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be. Before any ...
Business & Economics
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the benefits of economic freedom. In producing the study, the authors chose the most recent and academically rigorous peer-reviewed studies in top academic journals. “The price of limiting ...
Business & Economics
Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
The year is 2009 and a new American president is taking office during troubled economic times. Margaret Thatcher also took office in troubled times, but during the campaign her name was seldom invoked. According to Claire Berlinski, an American writer with a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, Margaret Thatcher ...
Business & Economics
Why can’t I redistribute my own wealth?
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s. But why on earth does that make him a ...
Business & Economics
The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the “free market” has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power. Whether it’s the ...
Business & Economics
Western Standard’s “Liberty 100” Top 75 for 2008
To recognize the work of Canadians who have advanced economic and personal liberty in 2008, the Western Standard has produced “Liberty 100,” a list of the top 100 friends of liberty in Canada. You can find the Top 10 from the “Liberty 100” here. Ezra Levant was our #1 pick ...
Business & Economics
The perils of chasing smoke stacks – and bank assets
The financial bailout is built on the premise that politicians will correctly pick which firms to aid. This approach, unfortunately, has a long track record of failure. Consider the practice of state and local officials picking winners and losers with incentive packages designed to lure businesses to their communities. A ...
Will 2009 Be the Year of Multiple Digital Identities?
Just days after microblogging company Twitter was hacked, a group of entrepreneurs and policy activists gathered at Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters to discuss “Privacy 2009: The Year Ahead.” The discussion, cohosted by Tech Policy Central, demonstrated that the privacy debate is starting to mature. Instead of inflexible government dictates for ...
Serious Goals for California in the New Year
The past year certainly boasted some highlights, including the Olympics and a much-anticipated national election, but with 2008 behind us, the mood is not exactly upbeat in California. The economy has cooled off, and the “Golden State” finds itself staring down the barrel of a two-year deficit of $40 billion, ...
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom
New Report Touts Benefits of Economic Freedom San Francisco – The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, today released The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, a report that highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the ...
First, do no harm
Taking the temperature of the Colorado economy As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be. Before any ...
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More
The Sizzle of Economic Freedom: How Economic Freedom Helps You and Why You Should Demand More, highlights the best scholarly studies measuring the benefits of economic freedom. In producing the study, the authors chose the most recent and academically rigorous peer-reviewed studies in top academic journals. “The price of limiting ...
Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
The year is 2009 and a new American president is taking office during troubled economic times. Margaret Thatcher also took office in troubled times, but during the campaign her name was seldom invoked. According to Claire Berlinski, an American writer with a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, Margaret Thatcher ...
Why can’t I redistribute my own wealth?
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s. But why on earth does that make him a ...
The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the “free market” has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power. Whether it’s the ...
Western Standard’s “Liberty 100” Top 75 for 2008
To recognize the work of Canadians who have advanced economic and personal liberty in 2008, the Western Standard has produced “Liberty 100,” a list of the top 100 friends of liberty in Canada. You can find the Top 10 from the “Liberty 100” here. Ezra Levant was our #1 pick ...
The perils of chasing smoke stacks – and bank assets
The financial bailout is built on the premise that politicians will correctly pick which firms to aid. This approach, unfortunately, has a long track record of failure. Consider the practice of state and local officials picking winners and losers with incentive packages designed to lure businesses to their communities. A ...
