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Who's to Blame for ObamaCare? Two Conservatives!

December 30, 2009

(I wrote the following article for Human Events, but apparently it was too controversial and was removed after about 100 e-letters of commentary, both favorable and critical. Read here’s the original op-ed, uncensured.) By Mark Skousen This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obama Care. It’s easy to blame the [...]

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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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Proof Is in the Dow

March 2, 2009

From Human Events “The Obama budget is nothing less than an attempt to end the ideas of Ronald Reagan.” — New York Times Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics, once stated, “There is much ruin in a nation.”  President Obama is out to prove it in his Newspeak program he calls “A New Era [...]

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Obamanomics Is Making Matters Worse

February 24, 2009

From Human Events Unfortunately, the [Keynesian] balance week is unbalanced. ~ Milton Friedman We have outlived the short-run and are suffering from the long-run consequences of [Keynesian] policies. ~ Ludwig von Mises Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced another solution to the financial crisis — his new “Financial Stability Plan.” Since the announcement, Citigroup [...]

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