Economic Freedom

Will we survive Obamanomics?

March 5, 2009

From the Gilroy Dispatch Officially, President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget is titled “A New Era of Responsibility.” That’s false on two counts. It’s an era – not of responsibility, but of big-government taxation, spending, and regulation. And it’s not new. History is full of attempts to inflate the state to grow the economy. Virtually all [...]

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The World Map of Economic Freedom

June 1, 2002

Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies June 2002 “Economic repression breeds intolerance, fanaticism and terrorism.” — Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., Heritage Foundation I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this unusual map of the world. “The World Map of Economic Freedom” was published by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal before the terrorist [...]

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Can Money Buy Happiness?

April 1, 2002

Personal Snapshots Forecasts & Strategies April 2002 “I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.” —Hilaire Belloc I came across a very interesting book the other day called Happiness and Economics: How the Economy and Institutions Affect Human Well-Being (Princeton University Press, 2002), by Bruno [...]

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