Gold and Silver – Robert Kiyosaki and Mike Maloney
October 5th, 2009 by drs
Why you should be investing at least part of your money in silver.
The Power of the Market – Milton Friedman
August 26th, 2009 by drs
#tcot #tlot The Power of the Market. 31 excerpt lessons from Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose TV series.
Economics 101: The Path to Shortages in Obama Health Care
August 19th, 2009 by drs
Clifford L. Fry, Ph.D. presentation on the economics of the health care bill at the Houston Tea Party Society’s townhall on August 8, 2009.
Where Are The Jobs? Obama vs Obama
July 20th, 2009 by drs
President Obama changes course on the stimulus. Where are the jobs? House Republicans offer a real plan to create jobs and get our economy moving again.
Warren Buffett Slams “Cap and Trade” as a Regressive Tax on All Americans
June 24th, 2009 by drs
#tcot #tlot Call your congressman (202-224-3121) about HR2454
Let them know you are against another oppressive tax, especially in the midst of a deep recession! The Energy Tax bill (HR2454) goes to the floor for a vote on Friday (June 26th).
March 9th, 09 on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” billionaire investor and prominent Obama supporter Warren Buffett slammed the administrations proposed $646 billion carbon tax known as cap and trade as a regressive tax that customers are going to pay for.
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Wondering Why Things Are Not Getting Better?
April 4th, 2009 by drs
Are you wondering why things aren’t improving, why you have that queasy feeling in your gut as you watch your fellow workers getting laid off. Are you losing sleep as you worry about what you will do if your position is the next to go?
The following column by Dick Morris may help you understand. Put yourself in the shoes of a business owner or CEO and see if you can relate.
OBAMA‘S WORST JOBS-KILLER
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on April 1, 2009
More than anything else, business needs a predictable environment if it is to create jobs. Changes in the regulatory environment and the tax code make it almost impossible for businesses to make investments.
Yet President Obama seems to ignore this reality. Each day’s news brings another bold and far-reaching proposal to change the fundamentals of the US economy. And each time he indulges his personal ideology with such a pronouncement, businesses all over the world cut back on their planned investment until the dust settles.
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Tags: business owner, dick morris, federal reserve chairman, investments, JOBS-KILLER, obama, paul volcker, recession, tax consequencesPosted in
Don’t Imagine Market Failure Just Because It’s Difficult To See Market Success
March 23rd, 2009 by drs
You know I’ve never really looked at the spontaneous coordination of free market capitalism.
When you think of all the technology and comforts we have today in this society and how we ended up here based on millions of independent decisions by individuals, who were looking out for their own interests (and thus serving the interests of us all), it is nothing but amazing!
Please read this great column Biased Imagination by Donald J. Boudreaux, chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
You may end up looking at things differently when someone in Washington claims that they have the answers.
Biased Imagination
Imagine traveling back in time to 1809. You describe to some people you befriend the reality of personal transportation in America in 2009. You describe the automobile.
In your own mind, of course, you’re describing an ordinary contrivance that makes possible experiences that are perfectly ordinary to denizens of the early 21st century, such as zooming along at 70 mph. But to your early 19th-century listeners, you’re describing a barely imaginable wonder.
“What?!” they ask. “People in the future will drive machines made out of metal and filled with highly flammable liquids? Surely that will be intolerably dangerous. And to what purpose? No one has any need to travel at such unheard-of speeds! (more…)
Obamas So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy
March 22nd, 2009 by drs
Here’s another interesting video from: www.freedomandprosperity.org
President Obama wants Congress to dramatically expand the burden of government spending. This CF&P Foundation mini-documentary explains why such a policy, based on the discredited Keynesian theory of economics, will not be successful. Indeed, the video demonstrates that Obama is proposing – for all intents and purposes – to repeat Bush’s mistakes. Government will be bigger, even though global evidence shows that nations with small governments are more prosperous.
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The Laffer Curve, Part III: Dynamic Scoring (Corrected)
March 19th, 2009 by drs
A video by CF&P Foundation that builds on the discussion of theory in Part I and evidence in Part II, this concluding video in the series on the Laffer Curve explains how the Joint Committee on Taxation’s revenue-estimating process is based on the absurd theory that changes in tax policy – even dramatic reforms such as a flat tax – do not effect economic growth. In other words, the current system assumes the Laffer Curve does not exist.
Because of congressional budget rules, this leads to a bias for tax increases and against tax cuts. The video explains that “static scoring” should be replaced with “dynamic scoring” so that lawmakers will have more accurate information when making decisions about tax policy. For more information please visit the Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s web site: www.freedomandprosperity.org.
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Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov’t Is Not Stimulus
March 19th, 2009 by drs
Based on a theory known as Keynesianism, politicians are resuscitating the notion that more government spending can stimulate an economy. This mini-documentary produced by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation examines both theory and evidence and finds that allowing politicians to spend more money is not a recipe for better economic performance.
Tags: economic performance, Economy, freedom, government spending, keynesian economics, Keynesianism, Money, politicians, prosperity, stimulusPosted in
