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Forbes

China Builds World’s Largest Temple To Capitalist Materialism

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/12/2013

Forget the Great Leap Forward. Forget the Cultural Revolution. Forget the Little Red Book, and the 100 million souls who perished transforming one of the…

Trade and International

Forbes

Big Brother’s Stop-and-Snatch Asset Forfeiture Boom

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/04/2013

Imagine you are a small town grocer whose business is not large enough for an armored car service, so you regularly deposit the day’s cash…

Law and Litigation

Forbes

Why Obama’s Healthcare.gov Will Never Work As Specified

  • By: William Frezza
  • 10/28/2013

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Thus answered the HAL 9000 computer in the classic Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space…

Business and Government

Cheap Over-the-Counter STD Test Turbocharges Casual Sex

Cheap Over-the-Counter STD Test Turbocharges Casual Sex

  • By: William Frezza
  • 10/22/2013

Imagine you’re a young Millennial prowling for a hookup. It looks like tonight might be your night. But when the magic moment arrives, instead of…

Health and Safety

Forbes

The International Monetary Fund Lays The Groundwork For Global Wealth Confiscation

  • By: William Frezza
  • 10/15/2013

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) quietly dropped a bomb in its October Fiscal Monitor Report. Titled “Taxing Times,” the report paints a dire picture for…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Is Eric Holder Playing Don Corleone To Jamie Dimon’s Bonasera?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 10/01/2013

As Don Corleone said to Bonasera in The Godfather’s iconic opening scene, “Some day, and that day may never come, I’ll ask a service of you.” For…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep, Wolves, Pigs And Sloths

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/24/2013

No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and…

Forbes

The Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep, Wolves, Pigs And Sloths

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/24/2013

No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and…

Business and Government

Forbes

Is Uncle Sam Really The Greatest Entrepreneur Of All Time?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/17/2013

A new book titled The Entrepreneurial State that is now making the rounds gives credit to Uncle Sam for inventing many of the technologies we enjoy…

Tech and Telecom

Real Clear Markets

Obama Announces Detailed Six Point Plan To Make College Affordable

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/16/2013

Yesterday, President Barack Obama broke with his practice of declaring an intractable issue his top priority, before abandoning it to Congressional infighting, to double down…

Forbes

President Obama’s ‘Syrialoquy’: To Bomb, Or Not To Bomb

  • By: William Frezza
  • 09/08/2013

To bomb, or not to bomb, that is the suggestion; Whether ’tis nobler in the polls to suffer The Slings and Arrows of…

Business and Government

Real Clear Markets

Federal Judge Rules Food Stamp Recipients Can Unionize

  • By: William Frezza
  • 08/22/2013

In a surprise ruling, a three judge panel of the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion supporting the right of Supplemental Nutrition…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

My Father: A Eulogy To A Good Man From The Greatest Generation

  • By: William Frezza
  • 08/20/2013

The following remarks were delivered at Dad’s wake, August 18, 2013. Summing up my father’s life, I keep coming back to one thought. Never will…

Forbes

Caveat Emptor Banking: Peer-To-Peer Lending Challenges Too-Big-To-Fail Status Quo

  • By: William Frezza
  • 08/13/2013

Imagine a financial institution that the government cannot deem too big to fail, requires no deposit insurance, can never be subject to a run, needs…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Caveat Emptor Banking: Peer-To-Peer Lending Challenges Too-Big-To-Fail Status Quo

  • By: William Frezza
  • 08/13/2013

Imagine a financial institution that the government cannot deem too big to fail, requires no deposit insurance, can never be subject to a run, needs…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

The Founders’ Greatest Fears About Democracy Are Playing Out

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/31/2013

Our Founders’ greatest fear that pure democracy would inevitably destroy itself is being played out in two distinct dramas, both headed toward the same ending.

Business and Government

Huffington Post

To Save the Planet, Obama Sets White House A/C to 85 Degrees

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/29/2013

President Barack Obama, rebounding off his pivot from giving speeches on race relations in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict to giving speeches about…

Climate

Forbes

Want To Revive Glass-Steagall? Try This Wall Of Separation Instead

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/23/2013

A debate is raging on the left, the right, and even in libertarian circles on the best way to escape from the Too-Big-To-Fail quagmire. But…

Business and Government

Huffington Post

Want to Revive Glass-Steagall? Try This Wall of Separation Instead

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/23/2013

A debate is raging on the left, the right, and even in libertarian circles on the best way to escape from the Too-Big-To-Fail quagmire. These…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

We Are Gathered Here Today To Witness The Burial Of The Protestant Work Ethic

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/16/2013

Economic values do not spring from a vacuum. They are rooted in the broader moral values we rely on to navigate our lives. Let me…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Forbes

Can Post-Constitutional America Recover Its Freedom And Prosperity?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/09/2013

It is by now undeniable that our Constitution is being unwound at an accelerating rate. With the wave of a blog post, the President of…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Great Obamacare Intergenerational Swindle

  • By: William Frezza
  • 07/02/2013

In the sci-fi thriller The Hunger Games, a group of young people are made to compete against each other in a fight for survival. Post-Constitutional America…

Business and Government

Forbes

‘Racist’ Massachusetts Voters Defeat A Hispanic Republican Senatorial Candidate

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/25/2013

Pretty offensive headline, isn’t it? Baselessly ascribing racist motives to voters for choosing Caucasian Rep. Ed Markey over Latino challenger Gabriel Gomez in this week’s…

Business and Government

Forbes

Coming Soon: A Dramatic Downshift In Company Size, Plus Hours Worked

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/18/2013

The regulatory state never sleeps, relentlessly working day and night to tilt the economic playing field in favor of the politically connected. The regulations it…

Business and Government

Forbes

Coming Soon: A Dramatic Downshift In Company Size, Plus Hours Worked

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/18/2013

The regulatory state never sleeps, relentlessly working day and night to tilt the economic playing field in favor of the politically connected. The regulations it…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

The Blackberry Q10 Delivers As Mike Lazaridis Reflects

  • By: William Frezza
  • 06/11/2013

I first met Mike Lazaridis, the retired co-CEO and founder of Research in Motion (RIM), in 1991 when I was a rogue marketing manager at…

Tech and Telecom

Forbes

Once The Obama Narrative Implodes, Reality Breaks Through

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/28/2013

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of…

Business and Government

Forbes

Self Help Africa: Why Only Profits Can Cure Poverty

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/21/2013

The importance of profiting from one’s efforts ought to be an easy concept to embrace. It is why humans no longer live in caves. If…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Move Over Polar Bears, Palm Oil Orangutans Want Their $5 Worth Of Fame

  • By: William Frezza
  • 05/14/2013

What do polar bears,orangutans, the Walt Disney DIS +0.48% Company, Cheetos, recycled fundraising schemes, and corporate shakedowns have in common? It’s just another day on the social…

Energy and Environment

Forbes

Gay Marriage, Polygamy, Bestiality, Abortion, Infanticide, Pot, Foie Gras, Plastic Bags, Big Gulps and Democracy

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/30/2013

Consider the following list: 1) Marry someone of your same gender, 2) join a harem, 3) have sex with your donkey, 4) kill your baby the…

Consumer Freedom

Forbes

Poverty Professionals And The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/16/2013

Yes, it looks like a wedding announcement out of The Onion, but when it comes to making a killing off the never-ending “War on Poverty,”…

Business and Government

Forbes

We Can’t Save Capitalism Unless We Denounce Its False Prophets

  • By: William Frezza
  • 04/03/2013

A debate is raging among free market advocates regarding the proper posture to take with respect to Too Big to Fail (TBTF) banks. This has…

Business and Government

Forbes

How To Protect Your Retirement Assets From The Coming Crash

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/19/2013

As a chronic prognosticator of doom, I’m often asked, “Do you heed your own warnings?” I sure didn’t the last time the stock market crashed.

Banking and Finance

Forbes

When Postmodern Art Attacks Western Civilization

  • By: William Frezza
  • 03/06/2013

Most people don’t give much thought to how our cultural institutions shape our world view, and the impact this has on politics, but I’m one…

Forbes

Sequester This! President Obama’s Colossal Media Blunder

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/27/2013

President Obama has gone all-in trying to get Republicans to blink and serve up another round of tax increases in lieu of the looming spending…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

After The Sequester, Bring On The Blame Game

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/20/2013

Should a miracle occur and the pending sequester actually kick in to reduce the growth of federal spending—said slowdown derided as “draconian budget cuts” even…

Business and Government

Huffington Post

National Cancer Institute Funds Tea Party Witch Hunt

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/19/2013

What was the National Cancer Institute (NCI) thinking when it decided to spend $678,952 to fund a notorious political activist to conduct a "scientific" research…

Consumer Freedom

Forbes

Doctor Shortage? Let Idled Postal Workers Fill In! (Satire)

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/13/2013

Rejoice, one of Obamacare’s great mysteries has been solved: Namely, the question of how we are going to provide free medical care to 30 million…

Health and Safety

Forbes

Atlas Shrugged Producer Shares Insights And A Surprise That Awaits In Atlas III

  • By: William Frezza
  • 02/06/2013

Ayn Rand fans will be pleased to know that filming for the third installment of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy was greenlighted this past weekend. Thanks to a…

Forbes

It’s Time For A Transparency-In-Government-Statistics Law

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/30/2013

Question: When does a government agency chartered with collecting and disseminating economic data morph into a propaganda ministry? Answer: When it allows unaccountable bureaucrats answerable…

Business and Government

Forbes

Deconstructing Obamanomics: What Is The Real Goal?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/23/2013

As President Barack Obama begins his second term, democratically returned to office by a majority of Americans who seem to buy what he is selling, it…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Logic, Illogic And Political Calculus Of The Great Gun Control Debate

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/16/2013

Whenever you see a parade outside, you can count on politicians to jump out in front of it to demonstrate their leadership. Even better is…

Law and Litigation

Real Clear Politics

Obama Blinks: No Emperor’s New Coin

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/14/2013

It looks like the American people have been cheated out of a precious teachable moment. Demonstrating their ability to think two moves ahead, something their…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

A Barrage Of Legal Threats Shuts Down Whistleblower Site, Science Fraud

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/09/2013

Those of us concerned about the decaying credibility of Big Science were dismayed to learn that the whistleblower site Science Fraud has been shut down…

Forbes

Fiscal Justice Trumps Fiscal Sanity, Progressivism Marches On

  • By: William Frezza
  • 01/04/2013

In his first New Year’s Eve address since taking office, French President François Hollande—progressive poster boy and role model for class warriors the world over—defended his…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Clement Moore Revisited: Twas The Night Before Fiscliff

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/23/2012

Twas the night before Fiscliff, when all through the House Not a statesman was stirring, not even to grouse. Neither bills nor amendments…

Business and Government

Forbes

Can Union Backed Crowdfunding Rescue Hostess From Bankruptcy?

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/12/2012

By now you’ve heard at least two opposing versions of the Tale of the Tearful Twinkies. In the first, a great American brand was driven…

Business and Government

Forbes

A Tax Both Ayn Rand And Ralph Nader Could Love

  • By: William Frezza
  • 12/05/2012

Here is a puzzler worth pondering as Congress scrambles to find enough tax revenue to feed its insatiable appetite for spending. Can you come up…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Grover Norquist’s Gnomes Duke It Out With The Tax Fairness Fairy

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/28/2012

No one seriously believes that federal spending is going to be brought under control any time soon. Regardless of what deals are cut during the…

Banking and Finance

Forbes

Regulatory Uncertainty Drives A Fish Farmer To Foreign Waters

  • By: William Frezza
  • 11/25/2012

Feeding 7 billion people is no small challenge. As it has from time immemorial, high quality protein harvested from the sea plays a major role…

Business and Government

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