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Occupy Wall Street: America’s Road to Greece
The chattering classes are peddling a new meme designed to control the narrative surrounding the arrested adolescents who’ve been camping out in lower Manhattan, raging…
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Needed: Skilled Immigrants
Oct. 1 marked the beginning of the new term for recently issued H-1B visas for highly skilled workers. H-1B visas are three-year, once-renewable, employer-sponsored…
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How To Create Shortages In An Abundant World
An old cold war joke asks a Russian, a Pole, an Israeli, and an American the following man-on-the-street question. “Excuse me, what is your opinion…
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Most Green Energy Projects Are Thinly Veiled Exercises In Crony Capitalism
In late September on this site, Christopher Helman favorably profiled Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser‘s “green” energy agenda. Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly…
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Why Your Bank Is Charging More Fees
There are many observations that can be made about President Obama’s remark Monday to ABC News that businesses “don’t have some inherent right just…
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Hoover Spent Big
Wherever did some Canadian economists get the strange idea that U.S. president Herbert Hoover “helped plunge his country into the Great Depression through austerity measures”…