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"Economics is not dart throwing. It can be understood and properly forecast...(it) is a scientific discipline with established laws; applying those laws will yield fairly accurate predictions over time." – Peter Schiff

FEATURES

This week's feature
Schiff: The Golden Rule Reinterpreted

"He who has the gold makes the rules."

Last week's feature:
Moore and Williams:
The Millionaire Subsidy Elimination Act

"Cutting benefits to those who don't need them is a better way to trim deficits than hurting the economy with higher tax rates."

Previous features
Williams: Good Economists
Christopher Westley: Unions and the Other Tiny Tim
Stossel: Let’s Give the Fed Some Competition
Stossel: Job Killers
Boudreax and Willams: How to Keep More Kids on the Streets
George Reisman: The Irrelevance of Worker Need and Employer Greed in Determining Wages
David Howden: Deflation's Inflationary Source
Schiff: Keynesians Jump The Gun on Inflation
Sowell: A Defining Moment (Minimum Wage)
Williams: Presidential Nonsense — "You're-On-Your-Own Economics"
George Will: The Redistributionist Behemoth
Reagan: Americans Angry at Senate Sycophants
Williams: Economic Fairness
Stossel: Ten Years to Greece
Murray: Manhattan Moment: Here's The
Right Way To Do Regulatory Relief

Stossel: Blocking the Paths Out of Poverty
Rothbard: Smashing Protectionist "Theory" (Again)
Sowell: Numbers Games
Stossel: The Stupidity of ‘Buy American’
Rockwell: The State Is the 1 Percent
Stossel: Wall Street Protesters Half Right
Stossel: Government the Job Killer
Stossel: Government Makes Us Poor
Sowell: Stop Whining (Minimum Wage)
Schiff: How the Government Can Create Jobs (Minimum Wage)
David Lee: How Canada Escaped the Global Recession
Peter Schiff: There They Go Again
Philipp Bagus: Who's Afraid of Deflation?
Peter Schiff: The Fix Is In
Peter Schiff: Debt Deal is a Blank Check
Walter Williams: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer
Sowell: Debt-Ceiling Chicken
Peter Schiff: Don't Be Fooled by Political Posturing
Mark Thornton: Why Legalize Now?
Stossel: The Money Hole
Schiff: End Game
Stossel: Government Against Blacks (Minimum Wage)
Williams: Do We Deserve Our Fate?
Kohlmayer: Back to the Gold Standard
Mark Thornton: The Lehman Brothers Plan
Schiff: Raising the Roof on Debt
George Will: Obama's Anti-Business Stance
John Silveira: An American dollar worth two cents
J. Kevin Meaders: Charting the Course to $7 Gas
Iain Murray: The price of regulation – Anti-stimulus
Schiff: Late to The Party…Once Again
Williams: Eat the Rich
Kohlmayer: The Path to Prosperity...in 2040?
Kohlmayer: The Next Economic Meltdown
Kohlmayer: The Party of Big Government
Seth Lipsky: The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights
Williams: Economic Lunacy
Robert P. Murphy: What's Wrong With Government Debt?
Schiff: A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way
Schiff: The Two Faces of Ben Bernanke
Walter Williams: Public Employee Unions
Walter Williams: Self-Inflicted Poverty
Peter Schiff: A Mockery of a Sham
Essay: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
by Vietnam veteran and former state senator Robert A. Hall
Peter Schiff: China's Inflation Problem Looms Large
Philipp Bagus: Will There Be QE3, QE4, QE5...?
Sowell: ‘Saving’ the Housing Market
Peter Schiff: Forever Stamps Tell Us Much
George Will: Tax-Reform Fundamentalist
Peter Schiff: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Stossel: Why Do The Poor Stay Poor?
Peter Schiff: More Stimulus Means Fewer Jobs
Michelle Malkin: Giving Thanks for American Ingenuity
Kohlmayer: Why Isn't Peter Schiff Head of the Fed?
Sowell: Deficit Reduction
Sowell: Guess Who?
Schiff: Keep Your Head Above Dollar
Stossel: Freer Is Better
Schiff: The Hail Mary
Williams: Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance
Williams: Something for Nothing
Schiff: Japan Intervenes to Bail Out America.com
Schiff: Flying Blind
But don't miss this: How Obama Thinks — Dinesh D'Souza
(This week's Forbes Magazine cover story)
Kohlmayer: The Main Thing
Sowell: Dismantling America (4 parts)
Don't miss this one: Fooled By Stimulus
Kohlmayer: The Death of the Dollar
Stossel: Private Enterprise Does It Better
Cap-and-Trade's Market Failure
Kohlmayer: Leviathan's Loot
The New Financial Regulation Bill: Hobbling a Housing Recovery
Walter Williams: Econonomic Stimulus Didn't Work Then, Either
Peter Schiff: The New Ideological Divide
Kohlmayer: America's Predicament
Walter Williams: Where Best To Be Poor
Walter Williams: Economic Myths, Fallacies and Stupidity
Kohlmayer: Greenspan's Call of Despair
Thomas Sowell: A Mind-Changing Page
Kohlmayer: The World's Money Problem
George Will: The Prosperity-to-Hysteria Two-Step
Thomas Sowell: The Real Public Service
Walter E. Williams: Free Markets: Pro-Rich or Pro-Poor?
Philipp Bagus: Have We Crossed the Point of No Return?

CAPITALISM AND FREE TRADE

Sowell: Slaves To Words — "tax cuts for the rich"

Stossel: Everyone Prospers With Free Trade

Stossel: Myths About Capitalsm

Stossel: Lower and Simplify Taxes!

MINIMUM WAGE

From The Concise
Encyclopedia of Economics
Walter E. Williams: Minimum
Wage Cruelty: Update
50 Years of Research
on the Minimum Wage

THE WELFARE STATE

Kohlmayer: The Curse of the Welfare State

George Will: Limits of a Welfare State

Schlafly: Some Pay, Some Receive

Stossel: What Am I? (Economics of Cruelty)

HEALTH CARE?

Stossel: Congress Can't Repeal Economics — October 6, 2010

Coulter: Prescriptions for Disaster Now Covered ... — April 1, 2010

Coulter: My Health Care Plan — March 18, 2010

Malkin: The Deem-o-crats' Towering Deception — March 19, 2010

Sowell: Talking Points vs. Realty — March 16, 2010

Sowell keeps them coming: Alice in Health Care — March 2010

Excellent 9-part series from Dr. Thomas Sowell — Oct-Nov, 2009

...and another 4-part series from Sowell — Nov. 3-6, 2009

Making Nightmare Out Of Health Care — 12/11/2009

Health Care is not a Right — 10/17/2009

Health Care is not a Right (from 1993!) — 12/11/1993

A Four-Step Healthcare Solution — 8/14/2009

More from Dr. Sowell: Alice In Medical Care – 6/30/2009

From Mises.org: The Healthcare Reader

Some of Our Favorites
It Takes Brains
Gold Prices
Atlas Economic Research

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Mises
Institute

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Quiz

Per Blyland's blog

Meltdown, Bailout, Stimulus?

Sowell: Stimulus or Sedative?

Wow… The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery

It's not that difficult to understand! The meltdown and the
bailout: why, how, and what they mean
– Feb. 2009

12/24/2009 – From one year ago (Dec. 2008), but still so relevant:
10 Reasons to Oppose a Stimulus Package for the States

Can "stimulus" spending actually help the
economy? Let's see what the experts say …

Thomas Sowell makes it clear again: Subsidizing Bad Decisions

Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout — 11/17/2009 Really??? Who'da thunk it??

Pascal Lamy, Head of World Trade Organization, says
Bailouts Threaten Free Trade! — Financial Times, July 6

How Congress Will Steal the Recovery — Forbes, July 13, 2009 issue

British economists apologize to the Queen for failing to predict the credit crunch:
Sorry, your Majesty, we just didn't see it coming — 7/28/2009

From Mises.org: The Bailout Reader

U.S. Debt Clock

Blog:
Conservative Economics

Peter Schiff Video Blogs

More from Peter Schiff

Another Sowell gem:
Too Many Apologies
— 2/24/2010

Climate-Gate? — 1/2/2010

Thomas Sowell on
The Fallacy of 'Fairness'
Feb. 2010

Sowell: The Economics of College, Apr. 2008

John Silveira: A quick tour of hyperinflation and the possible consequences for America

12 Warning Signs That Hyperinflation Is Imminent

From The Washington Examiner: The 2009 Nobel Prize -
Did They Get The Economics Prize Right? — 10/22/2009


If you assume that about 100 people in Washington are going to have meaningful input in the decision on how to spend this enormous stimulus of $800 billion, then on average each person is responsible for spending about $8 billion of our money. Can anyone in government spend that much money, $8,000 from every US household, more wisely than the average American would spend it? I simply do not believe that, and I also reject the morally dubious concept of taking people's money and spending it on their behalf, supposedly for their own good. — Alan Schram

The USA is Bankrupt —11/23/2009

Animal Farm 2009! — 7/27/2009

Socialist America Sinking —7/17/2009

Credit Expansion, Crisis, and the Myth of the Saving Glut —7/7/2009



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