President Obama’s reelection was greeted with a steep selloff in stocks this week. Markets have been bleeding in anticipation of a continuation of the executive branches anti growth policies and threats of more regulations, taxes and barriers to trade. That has been compounded by signals that Speaker John Boehner of the House of Representative may…
Should Democrats vote for Mitt Romney in the 2012 Presidential Election? Certainly many will. There are always people who for one reason or another decide to support the opposing candidates for President. Some could be teachers angry at Obama’s lack of support after the teachers strike in Chicago. Others could be the liberals who, like Bill…
The longer you are in Washington D.C. and the more influential you become, the more the pressure comes down to conform. A perfect example of this is in these final few days before the election, many on the free market right have put down their cudgels for reform and picked up the banner of compromise…
New Yorkers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy lined up at pumps, waiting sometimes for up to six hours to receive gasoline during a shortage brought on by the disaster. Gov. Cuomo acknowledged there is a shortage of fuel, but said “there is no reason to panic.” It would seem natural that such a high demand…
In 5 days, the American people will decide which President is best to manage the economy, police the world and spread democracy overseas. On November 6th, we as a people will vote for one of the two major party candidates, President Barack Obama and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney. …
It’s exceedingly common after tragic events for economists to claim that a natural disaster or act of terrorism is a benefit to an economy. With Hurricane Sandy on her way out, dozens of economists have taken to the press with their defunct ideas about how the hurricane’s devastation will be a “stimulus.” The natural disaster…
A “Libertarian Republic” is a concept that attempts to describe an ideal form of governance for a nation devoted to classical liberal ideas. It reflects a desire for the power of governance to be situated as near to the citizens being governed as possible. It is to invoke the ideas of Federalism and to imply…