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Nationalizing the Financial Industry

When government proposes to nationalize a major industry, it is a loudspeaker blaring the message that the country is abandoning the market

Jul 25, 2012
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
Stossel on Regime Uncertainty

The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it

Jun 7, 2012
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1 Min
Rejecting Public Ownership

Business creators and investors are increasingly choosing not to take their companies public, says the Economist, and one reason is...

May 18, 2012
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2 Mins
Crony Capitalism versus "Making" Money

Saluting the philosopher who gave reason its foundational tool, Ayn Rand named the three sections of Atlas Shrugged after Aristotle’s axioms

May 7, 2012
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Walter Donway
8 Mins
Obama's Power Move: Scapegoating Speculators

On April 17, President Barrack Obama addressed Americans about rising prices of gasoline, now above $5.00 a gallon in parts of the country..

Apr 25, 2012
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
Lessons Not Learned From the Housing Crisis

Two very different narratives attempt to explain the massive housing boom and subsequent crash.

Apr 12, 2012
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James Kourlas
10 Mins
An Economic Defense of Insider Trading

One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider

Feb 12, 2012
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Jeffrey A. Miron
4 Mins
The Alan Greenspan Confession

Under pointed questioning by Henry Waxman, the committee chairman, Greenspan issued a mea-culpa that resounded around the world.

Feb 6, 2012
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2 Mins
The Morality of Insider Trading

In the decades since the SEC decided that trading in your company’s stock could be a form of “fraud” if you were guided by first-hand knowle

Dec 6, 2011
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10 Mins
Losing While Winning

Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.

Nov 11, 2011
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10 Mins
How to Feed Your Family on $10 Billion a Day

Fall 2011 issue -- Seems like these days I hear a lot of whiney whiners whining about “out of control government spending” and “insane

Oct 26, 2011
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David Burge
6 Mins
Undermining the Attorney-Client Privilege

Should a lawyer be able to represent both a corporation and its employees? If a corporation’s executives and other employees can’t trust the

Oct 5, 2011
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3 Mins
Angry Customers Should Reevaluate Netflix's Changes

I hear customers are angry at Netflix over its recent changes. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: Why would anyone be angry...

Sep 22, 2011
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4 Mins
The Taking Tree (video)

September 13, 2011 -- What if our economy was a tree from which politicians could just take and take and take? When would they stop? Would

Sep 14, 2011
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Michael Ozias
1 Min
Altruismo y Capitalismo

El sistema capitalista se inició en el siglo que va de 1750 a 1850, como resultado de tres revoluciones. La primera fue una revolución....

Aug 31, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
12 Mins
No Tengo Que

Tengo que sacar la basura ... cambiar el aceite del carro ... pagar mi tarjeta Visa ... Tengo que hacer una presentación en la reunión de

Aug 31, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
¿Es Más Noble Dar Que Crear...?

Aug 30, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
Analysis: U.S. Attorney's statement on Rajaratnam Case

Summer 2011 issue -- On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on

Jul 26, 2011
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7 Mins
The Crime of Insider-Trading Punishment

"There is not even a chance we will do one day in jail,” Danielle Chiesi told Reuters last year, speaking of herself and Raj Rajaratnam...

Jul 21, 2011
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Alexander R. Cohen
3 Mins
Start it Up!

Thirty years ago, Steve Mariotti decided to take a jog by the river. He was about a mile into his run, close to where his high-rise Wall....

Jun 27, 2011
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Sarah Perry
10 Mins

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