Last week, inside sources told Reuters that four of the five members of the Federal Trade Commission were in favor of an antitrust action against Google , but this week one Congressman came out in defense of Google. Rep.
Nicole Ciandella over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenges President Obama and his Republican opponent's shared preference for discussing small businesses rather than big ones. It's the big businesses, she says, and the businesses that become big, that create new opportunities for workers and consumers . So they deserve more "love" from politicians.
October 5, 2012—The Middle East again has erupted with weeks of virulent and violent anti-American and anti-Western protests. Rioters...
October 8. 2012 -- Atlas Society CEO Aaron Day will address a group of liberty supporters in New Hampshire tonight, as part of a special dinner preceding a preview of Atlas Shrugged Part 2. Other speakers include leaders from the Free State Project and New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Also slated to speak is New Hampshire Speaker of the House William O'Brien.
October 5, 2012—The Middle East again has erupted with weeks of virulent and violent anti-American and anti-Western protests. Rioters besieged the American embassy in Egypt. Similar scenes followed Yemen to Pakistan. Even Muslims in European cities vented their venom.
Does Mitt Romney even know what a free market is? It’s worth asking, if only because people watching him debate last night, and incorrectly assuming that a successful businessman must know such basic facts, may have been misled.
Mitt Romney is running several TV ads that call China a cheater when it comes to trade. But the GOP presidential candidate is cheating his
It was the battle of the blue suits, round one, in the presidential debates. There were no major gaffes and no absolute knockouts. Pundits
Would-be customers were standing in line at Peter Cimino’s taco truck in Amherst, N.Y., last month when an officer from the local buildings department showed up. The officer claimed the truck needed a permit, but Cimino denied it. So the code officer told his customers to leave .
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" said Samuel Johnson. Well, not always. But President Obama has placed himself squarely in
It is sometimes suggested that success in business is an exceptionally good qualification for public office. By that standard, Michael R. Bloomberg would be one of the most qualified public officials in the country: Before becoming mayor of New York City, he built a highly successful enterprise —and its field was financial news, thus tying him to two of New York’s most important industries, finance and media.
If you don’t like the idea of antitrust enforcers making Google help its competitors , consider this: Sometimes, antitrust law results in prison terms.
We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Percept
“I feel like I’ve become a government employee without the benefits,” said Vinnie Mazzone, who’s been selling food in Brooklyn for decades..
Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....
Editor's Note: In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a flurry of prosecutions that cost numerous executives their jobs and a few their freedom. Roger Donway ’s monograph Rich-Hunt tells the story of Greg Reyes, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine—a miscarriage of justice wrought by ambitious prosecutors and their cheerleaders in the media. At The Atlas Society’s 2012 summer conference, where Greg Reyes spoke of his ordeal, Roger Donway explained why the backdated-options frenzy was an anti-business persecution generated out of the flimsiest excuses. What follows is an edited version of Donway’s talk.
Today is Constitution Day, and while the Constitution we inherit from America’s Founders is easy to praise, it doesn’t take much looking to
The storming of America’s embassy in Egypt and the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya make it imperative that we understand why the Arab Spring was only the illusion of a warm breeze in the cold, dreary, pre-modern cultural darkness.
Quite the contrary. He's taking sweetness out of life for the eight million people who live in New York City. And I'm not just talking...
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai , a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago
Last week, inside sources told Reuters that four of the five members of the Federal Trade Commission were in favor of an antitrust action against Google , but this week one Congressman came out in defense of Google. Rep.
Nicole Ciandella over at the Competitive Enterprise Institute challenges President Obama and his Republican opponent's shared preference for discussing small businesses rather than big ones. It's the big businesses, she says, and the businesses that become big, that create new opportunities for workers and consumers . So they deserve more "love" from politicians.
October 5, 2012—The Middle East again has erupted with weeks of virulent and violent anti-American and anti-Western protests. Rioters...
October 8. 2012 -- Atlas Society CEO Aaron Day will address a group of liberty supporters in New Hampshire tonight, as part of a special dinner preceding a preview of Atlas Shrugged Part 2. Other speakers include leaders from the Free State Project and New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. Also slated to speak is New Hampshire Speaker of the House William O'Brien.
October 5, 2012—The Middle East again has erupted with weeks of virulent and violent anti-American and anti-Western protests. Rioters besieged the American embassy in Egypt. Similar scenes followed Yemen to Pakistan. Even Muslims in European cities vented their venom.
Does Mitt Romney even know what a free market is? It’s worth asking, if only because people watching him debate last night, and incorrectly assuming that a successful businessman must know such basic facts, may have been misled.
Mitt Romney is running several TV ads that call China a cheater when it comes to trade. But the GOP presidential candidate is cheating his
It was the battle of the blue suits, round one, in the presidential debates. There were no major gaffes and no absolute knockouts. Pundits
Would-be customers were standing in line at Peter Cimino’s taco truck in Amherst, N.Y., last month when an officer from the local buildings department showed up. The officer claimed the truck needed a permit, but Cimino denied it. So the code officer told his customers to leave .
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" said Samuel Johnson. Well, not always. But President Obama has placed himself squarely in
It is sometimes suggested that success in business is an exceptionally good qualification for public office. By that standard, Michael R. Bloomberg would be one of the most qualified public officials in the country: Before becoming mayor of New York City, he built a highly successful enterprise —and its field was financial news, thus tying him to two of New York’s most important industries, finance and media.
If you don’t like the idea of antitrust enforcers making Google help its competitors , consider this: Sometimes, antitrust law results in prison terms.
We're very pleased to announce that David Kelley's classic treatise on epistemology, The Evidence of the Senses: A Realist Theory of Percept
“I feel like I’ve become a government employee without the benefits,” said Vinnie Mazzone, who’s been selling food in Brooklyn for decades..
Measurement often is the crucial step in understanding—and gaining control—of a complex phenomenon....
Editor's Note: In the middle of the last decade, two business professors and a handful of Wall Street Journal reporters called attention to widespread backdating of employee stock options, launching a flurry of prosecutions that cost numerous executives their jobs and a few their freedom. Roger Donway ’s monograph Rich-Hunt tells the story of Greg Reyes, CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, who was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $15 million fine—a miscarriage of justice wrought by ambitious prosecutors and their cheerleaders in the media. At The Atlas Society’s 2012 summer conference, where Greg Reyes spoke of his ordeal, Roger Donway explained why the backdated-options frenzy was an anti-business persecution generated out of the flimsiest excuses. What follows is an edited version of Donway’s talk.
Today is Constitution Day, and while the Constitution we inherit from America’s Founders is easy to praise, it doesn’t take much looking to
The storming of America’s embassy in Egypt and the murder of America’s ambassador to Libya make it imperative that we understand why the Arab Spring was only the illusion of a warm breeze in the cold, dreary, pre-modern cultural darkness.
Quite the contrary. He's taking sweetness out of life for the eight million people who live in New York City. And I'm not just talking...
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai , a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago