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The Federal Government’s Reaction To Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement Of The Dollar’s Vulnerability 27 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
Tweet The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has private alternative currencies in its crosshairs. The Chairman, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member, Senator Tom Cobu...
Obama, the Great Defunder 27 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Tweet Obama has announced that he will defund the entire government rather than sign a bill that does not contain funding for ObamaCare. Senator Harry Reid has said he will not let the U.S. Senate pa...
The Government Should Stop Trying to Create Jobs 27 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Tweet I cringe every time I hear a politician or pundit talk about how a certain policy will create or destroy jobs. Yes, I get why it’s done; the unemployment rate in America is very high today and ...
Whatever Happened to Microsoft? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
Tweet The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal (August 24-25, 2013) carried a front-page story titled “CEO Exit Sets Microsoft on New Path,” by Shira Ovide. The opening sentences report Micros...
Yes, We Can Drill Our Way Out of This Problem 26 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
Tweet Perhaps you read the USA Today editorial on August 19 that concludes with: “the most important gains could come from radical shifts that are as unanticipated as was North America’s emergence as...
Keystone XL: not just a pipeline, a life-line 26 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Tweet The final State Department report on the Keystone XL pipeline’s environmental impact is expected in a matter of weeks. Yet, the administration continues to send mixed messages as to which direc...
Capricious Net Neutrality Charges Part 32, FCC Open Internet Order Series 26 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
Tweet Net neutrality is in the eye of the beholder. It’s rapidly devolved into a gotcha game — where if someone doesn’t like something or someone, they cry “net neutrality violation!” and call for a...
A Tale of Red and Blue 26 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
Tweet In his “Civil War Within the Second Civil War,” my Heartland Institute colleague Steve Stanek made some provocative observations in response to my blog post “America’s Second Civil War” and rai...
Our Goverment Says: Adhering to the Philsophy of the Founding Fathers is Dangerous 25 Aug 2013 | 11:21 am
Tweet Among the world’s worst monsters. Read up, and get mad! The Department of Defense has put out a “teaching guide” that charaterizies America’s Founding Fathers — the greatest champions of free...
Labor Productivity vs. Compensation 25 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
Tweet In some but not all industries, we can measure output; e.g., tons of this, cubic yards of that. By relating output to hours of labor, we have a measure of labor productivity. As measured by th...
