Economic Sense

Harper's, Garret Keizer: The mega-irony of the Republican Party: that of all people conservatives ought to have been the first to grasp ...

Some recent articles: Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety "applying interventions to control foodborne pathogens in g...

From a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology: "Obama is clearly a science buff, and is really, honestly, into knowing the facts, having ...

Markets generate prices which reflect trade-offs based on the knowledge and preferences of millions of individuals, and provide incentives t...

Back in September Peter Wallison wrote a piece debunking the myth that deregulation was the cause of our financial shortfalls these past co...

The role of the Fed - Video Real Clear Economics- Shorting the Stimulus Deregulation and the Financial Panic- WSJ Santelli's Tea Par...

Here you will find the transcript of questions and answers given during our president’s first press conference. It seems that our president...

PROMOTING THE GENERAL WELFARE Recently I was involved in a discussion regarding the constitutionality of national health care. Someone point...

IRAQ & THE WAR ON TERROR When a reporter brought up the fact that Al Queda was not in Iraq prior to the invasion, former president Bush ...

How does a free market oriented blogger like myself approach the issue of government funding and farm programs? There are two things that ...

Recently it has came out that Barak Obama plans to take the idea of rasing gasoline taxes off the table. This is a great call, and may show ...

I recently came across this disturbing story. It is speculation that the EPA may want to impose air pollution taxes on cattle and hog prod...

This post has become a tradition for me on this blog, with excerpts from a posting at the Foundation for Economic Education . Many may also...

In the Chornicle of Higher Education Blog , there is a troubling post. Below are some excerpts: " There is no doubt that food issues w...

A fairly recent Newsweek article entitled : ‘ Spread The Wealth? What’s New ?’ argues that progressive taxation inherently spreads wealth a...

I hope that yesterday's election was more a referendum on the Bush administration ( although I believe history will prove him to have be...

Eight years of a failed philosophy? Again history has shown that the failed philosophy we need to be concerned about is socialism not capita...

Aside from the fact that we have socialized interest rates via the fed, which have resulted in every boom and bust of the last century, and ...