Craving Another Great Depression
by Ralph R. Reiland – Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas grandparents “shared the optimism of a nation...
View ArticleObama: Our Marxist Wizard of Oz
by Peter Ferrara – His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn’t around much, his devoutly progressive...
View ArticleMorality and the Economy, No Separating the Two
by Chuck Colson – The next election should be all about the economy, right? Wrong in spades! During the seemingly endless build-up to the Iowa caucuses, there was one consistent refrain repeated over...
View ArticleObama’s Bogus Jobs Data, 1.2 Million Less Jobs
The Washington Times – The White House hyped the news Friday that January payrolls had risen by 243,000. The hitch is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also dropped 1.2 million from the calculated...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism Under Assault
by Emil W. Henry, Jr. – The Obama presidency has turned the American Social Contract on its head. In this election cycle, one noticeable phenomenon is how the Republican presidential candidates are...
View ArticleCatholic Social Doctrine and the Market Economy: Free Persons and Free Markets
by Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. The free market must operate within certain moral, institutional, and legal norms, or else it becomes something other than a free market. The free market is not an...
View ArticleThe Economic Paradox No One Wants to Talk About
by Arnold Ahlert – There is an economic paradox that few people understand, much less wish to acknowledge, because to do so would reveal the level of societal deterioration that has caused it. In...
View ArticleWhat the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero – Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his...
View ArticleKeynesianism and the Collectivist Dream
by William Sullivan – It’s campaign season, and as usual, Democrats are employing their class struggle rhetoric to position a redistributive government agenda as the only way Americans can be saved...
View ArticleWelfare State: Immoral and Irredeemable
by Walter E. Williams – Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they...
View ArticleEarning Happiness — The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise
The words “happiness” and “free enterprise” don’t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly...
View ArticleChallenging Liberals on Economic Immobility
by Samuel Gregg – When it comes to applying liberté, égalité, fraternité to the economy, modern liberals have always been pretty much fixated on the second member of this trinity. It’s a core concern...
View ArticleThe Rich Don’t Make Us Poor
by Charles Kaupke – We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the need for the wealthy to “pay their fair share” so that the federal government can pay down its debts and continue to fund programs to...
View ArticleMarriage: The Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
by Ken McIntyre – The collapse of marriage, along with a dramatic rise in births to single women, is the most important cause of childhood poverty—but government policy doesn’t reflect that reality,...
View ArticleFallacy Of Redistribution Has Grave Economic Impact
by Thomas Sowell – The recently discovered tape on which Barack Obama said back in 1998 that he believes in redistribution is not really news. He said the same thing to Joe the Plumber four years ago....
View ArticleOn Consecrating the Entire Economic Order
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon – St. Luke’s account of Zacchaeus in the sycamore tree (19:1-10) is a story rich in spiritual reflection; preachers and Bible-readers, coming from a variety of backgrounds,...
View ArticleAmerica is Going John Galt
by James McAlister – Many of us are numb today. Numb with the implications of what happened last night. Numb with dread. Endless days and countless lines of print will be expended in the post mortem of...
View ArticleSacrifice and Self-Interest
by Jordan Ballor – One of the complaints often rendered against the market economy is that it encourages selfish behavior. This picture of the marketplace is that of a kind of war of all against all,...
View ArticleWhen Work Is Punished: Tragedy of America’s Welfare State
by Tyler Durden – A single mom in America today is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits [welfare], than earning gross income of $69,000 with net income...
View ArticleUnited States in Severe Decline Thanks to Obama
by Deroy Murdock – The Land of the Free is governed by an out-of-control egomaniac, neither bolstered by managerial competence nor hindered by the legislature’s institutional prerogatives. In the Home...
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