Visiting Iowa, President Barack Obama made a pitch for the economy-killing carbon tax that the enviro left wants to impose on America. The president also talked up wind power…
The Politico reports that Amity Shlaes‘s wonderful book, The Forgotten Man, is in great demand on Capitol Hill as misguided lawmakers press ahead with another disastrous New Deal…
The preeminent funder of the American left, financier George Soros, an early supporter of President Obama, is now hitting Obama from the left. In an interview with Yahoo! Finance, Soros…
The governments of Iran and Venezuela have joined forces to create a joint bank aimed at promoting their exports, Reason’s Hit and Run blog reports. At the ribbon-cutting in…
Edward Hudgins has a good article called “Obama’s Grab-Bag Socialism” at the Atlas Society website. Although comparing Fascism and socialism is often like discussing how many angels can dance…
A variation on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” by The Mike Church Show Band offers apt commentary on America’s current political situation: (Hat tip: Doug Bandow of AmSpecBlog who got…
Quasi-governmental good news for a change. The so-called “mark to market” accounting rule helped to deepen the financial crisis but the Financial Accounting Standards Board decided today to ease the accounting fiat –and…
At long last Ayn Rand’s opus, Atlas Shrugged, may be turned into a movie, according to riskybusinessblog: Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist. After decades in development hell,…
Rick Santelli gave Arianna Huffington a primer in how markets work, or are supposed to be allowed to work, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” earlier today: This is what the Romans called simplex…