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More on the Estate Tax

…19th century view that wealth comes from holding huge tracts of under-utilized land….. And there’s Chet Hardy’s statement (an excerpt only here): Its just amazing that the same people who…

Spare Us From the Invisible Hand

by Gavin Kennedy Spare Us From the Invisible Hand Patrick Kilbride writes in Chamber Post HERE: “Free People, Free Minds, Free Markets” ‘In the 18th-century, Adam Smith left us with…

Consumer Financial Product Agency

economic crisis. MYTH #1: CFPA Will Limit Consumer Choice and Hinder Innovation At a recent hearing on the CFPA, Rep. Brad Miller challenged an industry representative to identify one consumer…

Clearly a Commie-Symp Terrorist

century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent…

SF-Politics Tie-In of the Day

…nomination from the Democrats in dire economic times. Like Obama, he was pictured as mysterious interloper. And like Obama, he was labeled a “Socialist.” Well, actually, that was mostly true…

Yglesias Wants to Soak the Rich

…of economic calamity. Producers of certain classes of supply-constrained luxury goods would lose out as their prices go down. But my strong suspicion is that at the end of the…