ESkeptic, the email newsletter of the Skeptic Society, today featured a double book review by The Atlas Society’s Edward Hudgins . Under the title “It’s Getting Better All the Time,” Hudgins looks at Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin.
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop trying to prevent beer makers AB InBev and Grupo Modelo from merging. The settlement is largely as described in my recent column : on the theory that an independently priced Corona limits the price of InBev products such as Bud Light, DOJ is requiring the merged companies to give up control of Corona in the U.S. market. As part of that arrangement, a brewery just south of the border will be sold to Corona’s new maker, Constellation.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is ready to open and the former president is giving interviews doubling down on the mantra that
April 2013 -- Atlas Society staff members Ed Hudgins and Alexander R. Cohen have been interviewed by media for their recent articles and Cohen's most recent article was published in several media outlets.
Unlike last time I went to a Senate antitrust hearing , I heard nothing scandalous at today’s. Nothing, except everything. Is it not scandalous to hear a law antithetical to the moral meaning of free enterprise called the “Magna Carta of free enterprise”? To hear a law created to empower the federal government to violate individual rights compared to the Bill of Rights, which was created to restrain the federal government and protect individual rights? Is it not scandalous to hear legislators celebrate a law that coercively controls the terms of voluntary trades to favor a certain side? Even if that side is that of "the consumer"?
April 16, 2013 -- Suppose you and your colleagues want to be paid more. So you make an agreement not to do any more work unless your pay is increased. If you’re unionized laborers, there’s a federal agency that may look after you. But if you’re lawyers with your own offices, taking court appointments to represent poor criminal defendants, there’s a federal agency that may go after you.
Bill Baer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is forcing Budweiser’s corporate owner AB InBev to give up a big...
Regulators have restricted so much finance-related speech that people in the industry now have to lobby for the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn like the rest of us. Or almost like the rest of us.
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This six-session
If you think antitrust is about fair competition, take a look at this : Delta and Virgin Atlantic are asking the U.S. Department of
A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend
April 8. 2013 -- Ed Hudgins will be a guest on WAGG 610 radio, a gospel station in Birmingham, Alabama, today at 3:00 PM Eastern.
James J. Treacy may have helped you find a job, but years after he left Monster.com , he was sent to prison over paperwork there...
Summer 2010 -- “’Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.”
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand , “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This .....
When businessmen get involved in policy advocacy, they can help promote the freedom to do business. Yet the impression, fostered by some libertarian intellectuals, that business lobbying tends only to produce special favors for politically connected businesses, can discourage honorable businessmen from participating in the fight for their own freedom. So argues Fred L.
Former Arkansas governor and presidential contender Mike Huckabee threatens that if Republicans embrace same-sex marriage and ignore the....
RECORDED WEBINAR Economic Power vs. Political Power Monday, April 15, 2013 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Eastern The politics of the United States for over a century have been dominated by the idea that the power of government was required to restrain and manage the power of businesspeople in the economy.
Last summer, I noted that a federal judge had allowed a case against Netflix for not captioning all its movies to proceed. Now the Wall...
Monster Energy is getting out of the dietary supplement business. But its customers shouldn’t panic: It’s going into the beverage business—with the same products. The change, you see, has nothing to do with what Monster makes or its customers buy. It’s simply a question of regulatory classification. Monster thinks its energy drinks can qualify as either supplements or beverages, and it’s switching in order to change its regulatory burdens. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois is trying to increase the regulatory burdens on dietary supplements.
ESkeptic, the email newsletter of the Skeptic Society, today featured a double book review by The Atlas Society’s Edward Hudgins . Under the title “It’s Getting Better All the Time,” Hudgins looks at Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, by Robert Zubrin.
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop trying to prevent beer makers AB InBev and Grupo Modelo from merging. The settlement is largely as described in my recent column : on the theory that an independently priced Corona limits the price of InBev products such as Bud Light, DOJ is requiring the merged companies to give up control of Corona in the U.S. market. As part of that arrangement, a brewery just south of the border will be sold to Corona’s new maker, Constellation.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library is ready to open and the former president is giving interviews doubling down on the mantra that
April 2013 -- Atlas Society staff members Ed Hudgins and Alexander R. Cohen have been interviewed by media for their recent articles and Cohen's most recent article was published in several media outlets.
Unlike last time I went to a Senate antitrust hearing , I heard nothing scandalous at today’s. Nothing, except everything. Is it not scandalous to hear a law antithetical to the moral meaning of free enterprise called the “Magna Carta of free enterprise”? To hear a law created to empower the federal government to violate individual rights compared to the Bill of Rights, which was created to restrain the federal government and protect individual rights? Is it not scandalous to hear legislators celebrate a law that coercively controls the terms of voluntary trades to favor a certain side? Even if that side is that of "the consumer"?
April 16, 2013 -- Suppose you and your colleagues want to be paid more. So you make an agreement not to do any more work unless your pay is increased. If you’re unionized laborers, there’s a federal agency that may look after you. But if you’re lawyers with your own offices, taking court appointments to represent poor criminal defendants, there’s a federal agency that may go after you.
Bill Baer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is forcing Budweiser’s corporate owner AB InBev to give up a big...
Regulators have restricted so much finance-related speech that people in the industry now have to lobby for the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn like the rest of us. Or almost like the rest of us.
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This six-session
If you think antitrust is about fair competition, take a look at this : Delta and Virgin Atlantic are asking the U.S. Department of
A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend
April 8. 2013 -- Ed Hudgins will be a guest on WAGG 610 radio, a gospel station in Birmingham, Alabama, today at 3:00 PM Eastern.
James J. Treacy may have helped you find a job, but years after he left Monster.com , he was sent to prison over paperwork there...
Summer 2010 -- “’Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.”
Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand , “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This .....
When businessmen get involved in policy advocacy, they can help promote the freedom to do business. Yet the impression, fostered by some libertarian intellectuals, that business lobbying tends only to produce special favors for politically connected businesses, can discourage honorable businessmen from participating in the fight for their own freedom. So argues Fred L.
Former Arkansas governor and presidential contender Mike Huckabee threatens that if Republicans embrace same-sex marriage and ignore the....
RECORDED WEBINAR Economic Power vs. Political Power Monday, April 15, 2013 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Eastern The politics of the United States for over a century have been dominated by the idea that the power of government was required to restrain and manage the power of businesspeople in the economy.
Last summer, I noted that a federal judge had allowed a case against Netflix for not captioning all its movies to proceed. Now the Wall...
Monster Energy is getting out of the dietary supplement business. But its customers shouldn’t panic: It’s going into the beverage business—with the same products. The change, you see, has nothing to do with what Monster makes or its customers buy. It’s simply a question of regulatory classification. Monster thinks its energy drinks can qualify as either supplements or beverages, and it’s switching in order to change its regulatory burdens. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois is trying to increase the regulatory burdens on dietary supplements.