Archive for September 3rd, 2010

The Flaws of Social Security


Friday September 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by Anthony Gregory at 6:13pm PDT   •   1 Comment

Far from being an investment program, Social Security is a pay-as-you-go operation where new revenues are spent immediately and future entitlements are funded exclusively through the promise to tax workers in the future, many of whom haven�t even been born yet. It is taxation without representation in the most cynical sense. The program is…
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Is Democratic Reform of Deficit Finance Possible?


Friday September 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by Emily Skarbek at 12:34pm PDT   •   0 Comments

For many, economic logic and application to a wise management of finances is a chore considered best left to the �professionals�. After all, crunching numbers given the vast array of rules and regulations can be taxing (pardon the pun). However, debt finance is a particular economic subject that can be easily understood and just…
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Entrepreneurs Know What the Federal Government Doesn’t


Friday September 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 12:53am PDT   •   0 Comments

In my recent article in Investor’s Business Daily, I discuss the enormous harm from and hypocrisy of federal economic policies as they inhibit private entrepreneurship. The current era has been dubbed the “Information Age,� and well it is. Never before has so much information been available so broadly and on such a level of…
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The Costs of the Federal Bailouts


Friday September 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by William Shughart at 12:12am PDT   •   0 Comments

Ever since the bursting of the real estate bubble became evident at the end of 2007, Washington has been on a spending spree to avert events that, in its collective judgment, threatened the stability and solvency of the U.S. financial system and economy as a whole. Although the U.S. economy has experienced recurrent cycles…
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