Not long ago, I wrote that it would be a good idea to turn human space exploration from NASA’s responsibility to the private sector. Imagine how happy I was to see a blog post from Dallas entitled, NASA Believes in the Free Market. The headline promised auspicious news – another efficiency from free exchange –…
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Economy, Free Markets, Planning
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be
by JOHN ADAMS •
No, it’s not, is it? The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. This year, of the world’s 20 largest economies, the U.S. suffered the largest drop in overall economic…
Development, Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason: Luck and Virtue in America and Haiti
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Reason.com, Steve Chapman writes about the earthquake in Haiti, and about prosperity in America, in an article entitled, Luck and Virtue in America and Haiti: Understanding the impact of the Haitian earthquake. From his essay: I look after the trees in my yard, making sure they get water, checking them periodically for signs…
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Capitalism beats socialism any day – ColumbiaTribune.com
by JOHN ADAMS •
Economy, Free Markets, Planning
“Red-Ink Tsunami: Why Old Ideas Can’t Fix the New Government Perma-Crisis”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Economics21.org there’s a succinct, useful article on fiscal policies that simply won’t solve America’s economic problems. “Red-Ink Tsunami: Why Old Ideas Can’t Fix the New Government Perma-Crisis” is a useful reminder – a warning, really – of state and local government’s limitations. Here are the five “Strategies of Yesteryear that Won’t Work Today”:…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Rep. Paul Ryan on Business and Markets
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater, Wisconsin is divided between two congressional districts, one of which is served by Rep. Paul Ryan. The online Washington Examiner has a brief opinion piece called, “Paul Ryan’s Free-Market Populism.” The article mentions an essay that Ryan recently wrote for Forbes in which he decried the tendency of large corporations to seek government handouts…
Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: John Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism
by JOHN ADAMS •
http://www.reason.tv/video/show/915 Here’s a description accompanying the video: When he started his first organic food store in Austin, Texas in 1978, Whole Foods Market CEO and co-founder John Mackey had no idea that he would eventually usher in not just a revolution in how we shop but what we buy. If you dig being able to…
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Geoffrey Lawrence: Blaming the recession on free markets is unscientific – Washington Examiner
by JOHN ADAMS •
Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Get Some! How to Fix America’s Health Insurance Crisis
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s video Thursday at FREE WHITEWATER, and here’s a provocative video from Reason, explaining how the number of uninsured in America could be reduced by half, without a single government program. It’s provocative because the popular notion that all of the uninsured are in the same predicament — they can’t afford coverage. That’s not true.…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians, Planning
Reason.tv: Government Providing ‘Country Roads to Serfdom’
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s video Thursday at FREE WHITEWATER, and here’s a video from Reason.tv’s Rough Cut blog, about the failure of government spending to improve conditions for West Virginia. Here’s a description accompanying the video: For decades, West Virginia has looked to the government to solve their economic problems, only to find themselves falling further behind. Today,…
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Pizza with Pizzazz: Toppers Finds Success in Wisconsin — GazetteXtra
by JOHN ADAMS •
There a story about local Whitewater success Topper’s Pizza over at the Janesville Gazette. (Quick note: I have no connection to Toppers, except as a repeat customer.) The best successes are those that come from one’s good products, good ideas, and hard work. See, Pizza with Pizzazz: Toppers Finds Success in Wisconsin.
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
From Reason.tv: Bjorn Lomborg — What’s the Best Way to Live with Global Warming?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Reason.tv, there’s an interview with Bjorn Lomborg, asking, What’s the Best Way to Live with Global Warming? Here’s a description of the interview: What’s the best way for humanity to reduce suffering from man-made global warming? No individual has been a stronger voice for rational cost-benefit analysis on this issue than Bjorn Lomborg,…
Economy, Free Markets, Uncategorized
Machan: The Problems Are Not Due to Capitalism
by JOHN ADAMS •
Professor of economics Tibor Machan writes that opponents of free markets are wrong to blame capitalism for the current recession. That blame-casting is proving short-lived: more Americans each day are rejecting government intervention in the economy, and embracing free markets in labor and capital as a foundation of a dynamic, prosperous, and tolerant society. Machan’s…
Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: British MEP Daniel Hannan on YouTube Superstardom, the NHS, and His Libertarian Plan for Britain
by JOHN ADAMS •
I previously posted a video clip of a British member of the European parliament in Brussels dressing down British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. (See, Candid Talk About…England.) The MEP was Daniel Hannan, well-known in England. Hannan’s back in an interview with Reason.tv, entitled, “British MEP Daniel Hannan on YouTube Superstardom, the NHS, and His Libertarian Plan…