Unemployed by ObamaCare
Three new Fed surveys highlight damage to the labor market. Wall Street Journal Editorial Most of the political class seems to have decided that ObamaCare is working well enough, the…
How to Transition from Obamacare to Real Health Care Reform
by James C. Capretta and Yuval Levin • Weekly Standard Obamacare—or at least the version of it that the president and his advisers currently think they…
Mob Rule Economics
by Thomas Sowell • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob…
Large Government out of Place in a Society based on Small Technology
by Michael Barone • Washington Examiner “Twentieth-century technology,” writes economic historian Joel Mokyr in the Manhattan Institute’s excellent City Journal, “was primarily about ‘large’ things.” Large in physical size,…
Harry Reid’s Peculiar Priorities
by Mark Pfeifle • RealClearPolitics The United States Senate should have a busy schedule when it comes back into session this week. Atrocities in the Middle…
The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability
The law’s perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively. By Casey B. Mulligan • Wall Street Journal Whether…
America’s New Class System
“Clerisy” class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday We’ve heard a lot of election-year…
Frontiers of Freedom Supports H.R. 3522 the “Employee Health Care Protection Act”
On Wednesday, September 10th, the House of Representatives is expected to take up the Employee Health Care Protection Act (H.R. 3522). If enacted, the legislation would allow American workers to…
Jobs Numbers Tank Showing Obama’s Policy Failures
by Peter Morici • FoxNews The U.S. economy created only 142,000 jobs in August, down from 212,000 in July, indicating the economy significantly slowed this summer. Job creation…
The Answer to Corporate ‘Inversion’
Rather than trying to ban the practice, why can’t Obama address corporate tax reform? by Charles Krauthammer • National Review The Obama administration is highly exercised about “inversion,”…
Intellectual property and economic prosperity: Friends or foes?
by Mark Schultz & Adam Mossoff • TechPolicyDaily.com A handful of increasingly noisy critics of intellectual property (IP) have emerged within free market organizations. Both the…
If only EPA stood for ‘Enough Protection Already’
by John Stossel • Fox News Thanks, Environmental Protection Agency! You’ve required sewage treatment plants, catalytic converters on cars and other things that made the world cleaner…
Sinking to Low Brow Demagoguery on Taxes
by Michael Barone • Washington Examiner “The tax system should be simplified and work for all Americans with lower individual and corporate tax rates and fewer brackets.” That’s…
Obama’s Green Unicorn
The true cost of renewable energy is being masked by government subsidies and bailouts. by Peter Roff • US News & World Report America is about as…
How Repealing And Replacing Obamacare Would Help Restore Booming Economic Growth
by Peter Ferrara • Forbes One of the biggest drags on economic growth under President Obama has been Obamacare, enacted on a strictly partisan basis in 2010. That…