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Interested in a Free Market-Friendly Economics Program?
Posted in Schools on 20 November 2009
Stats: 771 views and 6 Comments “I want my son or daughter to be exposed to free market economics after high school. What colleges or universities do you recommend?” If I’ve been asked that question once, I’ll bet I’ve been asked it a thousand times. Parents who cherish the values of freedom, limited government and private enterprise have good reason to [...]
Posted in Schools on 20 November 2009
Stats: 771 views and 6 Comments “I want my son or daughter to be exposed to free market economics after high school. What colleges or universities do you recommend?” If I’ve been asked that question once, I’ll bet I’ve been asked it a thousand times. Parents who cherish the values of freedom, limited government and private enterprise have good reason to [...]
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Posted in Articles, Books, Featured, Library on 4 September 2009
Stats: 48,966 views and 1 Comment Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era.
Posted in Articles, Books, Featured, Library on 4 September 2009
Stats: 48,966 views and 1 Comment Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era.
The True Meaning of Patriotism
Posted in Articles on 3 July 2009
Stats: 32 views and No Comments Freedom—understanding it, living it, teaching it, and supporting those who are educating others about its principles. That, my fellow Americans, is what patriotism should mean to each of us today.
Posted in Articles on 3 July 2009
Stats: 32 views and No Comments Freedom—understanding it, living it, teaching it, and supporting those who are educating others about its principles. That, my fellow Americans, is what patriotism should mean to each of us today.
No More Czars Please
Posted in Articles on 19 June 2009
Stats: 840 views and 3 Comments Words say a lot about a culture. Americans of 1900 never referred to one of their own as a “czar” because they understood the term.
Posted in Articles on 19 June 2009
Stats: 840 views and 3 Comments Words say a lot about a culture. Americans of 1900 never referred to one of their own as a “czar” because they understood the term.
Give Up? Are You Kidding?
Posted in From the President on 8 June 2009
Stats: 62 views and No Comments Remember that we stand on the shoulders of many people who came before us and who persevered through far darker times. The American patriots who shed their blood and suffered through unspeakable hardships as they took on the world’s most powerful nation in 1776 are certainly among them.
Posted in From the President on 8 June 2009
Stats: 62 views and No Comments Remember that we stand on the shoulders of many people who came before us and who persevered through far darker times. The American patriots who shed their blood and suffered through unspeakable hardships as they took on the world’s most powerful nation in 1776 are certainly among them.
All the News That’s Fit to Tint
Posted in Articles on 6 April 2009
Stats: 1,092 views and 10 Comments Adlai Stevenson’s description of the journalist as one who “separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff” was never more apropos than in the Sunday, April 5 edition of the New York Times.
Posted in Articles on 6 April 2009
Stats: 1,092 views and 10 Comments Adlai Stevenson’s description of the journalist as one who “separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff” was never more apropos than in the Sunday, April 5 edition of the New York Times.
Washington: Too Big To Succeed
Posted in Articles on 1 April 2009
Stats: 1,932 views and 4 Comments Once upon a time in America, most citizens expected government to keep the peace and otherwise leave them alone. Somewhere along the way, we lost our moral compass.
Posted in Articles on 1 April 2009
Stats: 1,932 views and 4 Comments Once upon a time in America, most citizens expected government to keep the peace and otherwise leave them alone. Somewhere along the way, we lost our moral compass.
Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy
Posted in Articles on 20 March 2009
Stats: 399 views and 2 Comments When I first took the podium to deliver the speech reprinted here, I was addressing the Detroit Economic Club, a world-renowned forum for sharing ideas. But even with my natural optimism and the publicity associated with that prestigious venue, I never imagined the amount of attention the “Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy” would receive [...]
Posted in Articles on 20 March 2009
Stats: 399 views and 2 Comments When I first took the podium to deliver the speech reprinted here, I was addressing the Detroit Economic Club, a world-renowned forum for sharing ideas. But even with my natural optimism and the publicity associated with that prestigious venue, I never imagined the amount of attention the “Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy” would receive [...]
The Importance of Character
Posted in Articles, Featured on 19 March 2009
Stats: 1,160 views and 2 Comments Twenty years ago, something quite remarkable happened in the little town of Conyers, Georgia — a town like Joplin in so many ways: full of salt-of-the-earth, self-reliant and patriotic citizens though about one quarter your size in population. When school officials there discovered that one of their basketball players who had played 45 seconds in [...]
Posted in Articles, Featured on 19 March 2009
Stats: 1,160 views and 2 Comments Twenty years ago, something quite remarkable happened in the little town of Conyers, Georgia — a town like Joplin in so many ways: full of salt-of-the-earth, self-reliant and patriotic citizens though about one quarter your size in population. When school officials there discovered that one of their basketball players who had played 45 seconds in [...]
Rome and the Great Depression
Posted in Articles, Featured on 24 February 2009
Stats: 2,467 views and 21 Comments Commentators on the present financial crisis have noted some interesting parallels to the Great Depression of the 1930s. But more ominous parallels to an earlier age should not escape our notice.
Posted in Articles, Featured on 24 February 2009
Stats: 2,467 views and 21 Comments Commentators on the present financial crisis have noted some interesting parallels to the Great Depression of the 1930s. But more ominous parallels to an earlier age should not escape our notice.
