White House Still Defending Failed Stimulus Plan Five Years Later
Five years later, it is obvious that President Obama’s stimulus was a failure. This week marks the fifth anniversary of Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan, a… Read More
Obama Shouldn’t Decide Your Truck’s Gas Mileage
It shouldn’t be President Obama calling the shots on the range for gas mileage for trucks. The President has instructed his Administration to foist a… Read More
Did Climate Change Cause the California Drought? Or Big Government?
While scientists continue to debate global warming, it’s undeniable that the federal government has had an active hand in exacerbating California’s drought. President Obama flew… Read More
How to Free the Housing Market from Government—and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
President Obama said something truly great in his State of the Union Address this year. He told Congress: [S]ince the most important investment many families… Read More
Workers Choose Not to Turn Chattanooga Into Detroit
Three weeks ago I traveled to Chattanooga, Tenn., on behalf of the Beacon Institute to educate workers and community leaders on the perils of unionizing… Read More
Forget Obamacare. Get Worried About ObamaLoans.
The U.S. government is simultaneously trying to shut down a legitimate industry and replace it with a taxpayer backed version. Pretty much everyone has heard… Read More
Comcast/Time-Warner: Storm Forecasts Just Hot Air
While much of official Washington was kept from the office on Thursday by a snowstorm, a storm of a different kind was developing in the… Read More
Thank Free Trade for Your Valentine’s Day Flowers
On May 14, 2012, a plane loaded with freshly cut flowers departed Bogota, Colombia, headed for Miami. By the time it landed in Florida, the… Read More
Till Debt Do We Part
The GOP’s capitulation on the debt ceiling bill this week calls to mind the famous line from Macbeth about misdeeds: “If it were done when… Read More
If Only a Snow Shovel Could Dig Us Out of This
Thanks to Congress, the U.S. now doesn’t have a debt limit for the next year. Let two Heritage experts put this into perspective. “President Obama,… Read More
Sodium in FDA’s Sights
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to be America’s nutritionist and control what we eat. Last November, the agency published a proposal to ban… Read More
Obama’s War on Work
The cleverest spin to come from the Left these days has been that not working—or working less—is a great thing for Americans. A recent Congressional… Read More
Workers at Volkswagen Plant Resist Unionization
Volkswagen Team Member Testimonials from Otto Worker on Vimeo. More than 1,550 workers at a Volkswagen manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee will begin voting today… Read More
Congress Is Giving Obama a Blank Check
Remember all those debt limit fights? Well, apparently Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether…. Read More
USDA’s New Climate Hubs Repackage Old Micromanagement
Everything old is new again when it comes to federal agriculture policy. The federal condescension that has become characteristic of many a farm bill’s agriculture… Read More
SEC Crowdfunding Rules Need Work
“Going public” now costs a company about $2.5 million. This money is spent on lawyers, accountants, and other expenses to meet the registration requirements of… Read More
Stuck in Congressional “Groundhog Day”
In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray wakes up again and again to find that he is stuck in the same day. This happens multiple… Read More
Why Unemployment is High in Parts of Michigan
Bruce Los, vice president of Gentex Corp., a $1.2 billion manufacturing company located in tiny Zeeland, Mich. (population 5,508), often hosts executives from foreign auto… Read More
State of Union Disregards Economic Freedom
The Los Angeles Rams announced they were moving to St Louis. President Clinton gave Mexico $20 billion to bail out the peso. Baywatch babe Pamela… Read More
Risky Business in Emerging Markets
Emerging markets have been taking a beating in 2014. As money rushes out of these economies and currencies depreciate, central banks in Turkey, South Africa,… Read More
Krugman Changes His Tune
Paul Krugman hates it when conservatives mention that welfare benefits and taxation induce some people to leave the labor force. Today, he wrote of “moochers… Read More
January Jobs Report: Few Signs of a Thaw
In January, the economy added 113,000 new jobs and the headline unemployment rate dipped to 6.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The… Read More
You Can’t Trust Washington on Immigration
President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said… Read More
Obamacare Mandate Means Minimum Wage Employees Cost Businesses $10.30 an Hour
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just reported that President Obama has already effectively raised the minimum wage. How so? The Obamacare employer mandate requires employers… Read More
Bam! We’re Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
It’s timely that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) put out new numbers on America’s financial situation this week. By the end of the week, we’ll… Read More
Index of Economic Freedom in Action During a Senate Budget Committee Hearing
Senator Jeff Sessions (R–AL) recently asked David Rosenberg, chief economist at a Canada-based global wealth management firm, at a Senate committee hearing: Mr. Rosenberg, according… Read More
Conservatives and Business Agree on the Need to Cut Government
America’s business leaders and conservatives agree: Government should cut costs, stop overregulating, and shrink. America’s economic freedom and the economic growth it generates depend on… Read More
Where’s the Bad News on the Deficit? Here It Is.
The Washington press corps was all atwitter yesterday with the news that the budget deficit is shrinking and the red ink will hit a seven-year… Read More
CVS Tobacco Decision Shows Businesses’ Freedom to Choose How to Run Their Business
Would a company voluntarily give up $2 billion a year in sales? Apparently so, if its leadership decides it’s the right thing to do. That’s… Read More
Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
Obamacare moves people further away from jobs and shifts their health care costs to taxpayers. Good news or bad? The White House took up defensive… Read More
