Economic education has become economic disinformation
BY PER BYLUND: Economics education apparently provides students with a pseudoscientific rationale for their illusions.
Radical resetters show their math in new peer-reviewed study
READ ENTIRE STUDY which concludes U.S. and Canada must cut energy use by 90% which is not enough to sustain "decent" standard of living. Lead author: "Degrowth - it is an idea whose time has come."
“Going Green” good for the economy?
The Green cure is worse than the illness.
Forcing “Green” mandates during an economic crisis
Force-feeding inefficient, costly energy sources and expensive electric vehicles in low demand is a colossal waste at the worst time.
Millennials given responsibility to pay for retirement program deficiencies
In these trying times coping with the Coronavirus, and its huge impact on businesses and employment, the younger generations have been set up to pick up some the costs of the lucrative defined benefits that their parents and grandparents voted in for themselves.
I, Pencil
Coronavirus policymakers take heed. When we withdraw from the marketplace, a reverse multiplier takes hold with a strangling grip. Consider the simple pencil...
Socialism has no redeeming benefits, seriously
In Capitalism, the customer is always right; in Socialist societies, he’s always wrong.
Government (-driven) shutdowns have human consequences
Too many government regulators burden and shut down private sector businesses and jobs.
Carbon tax economists profoundly ignorant and/or cynical
BY MARK MATHIS: A bipartisan group of Nobel Prize-winning economists, former Federal Reserve chairs and top economic advisers to recent presidents has endorsed a carbon tax. Their reasons for supporting the tax demonstrate a profound obliviousness to energy reality.
As the world and climate change yet again
By John Shanahan Who is helping to create a better world? Who is determined to hold everyone back?
The Experiment: Capitalism versus Socialism
There has been no clearer comparison between capitalism and socialism than the two Germanys that were created at the end of World War II -- socialist/communist East Germany, under Soviet hegemony, and capitalist West Germany, with strong ties to Western Europe and the United States. Clearly, West Germany's capitalist system produced better results for its people -- and only recently have East Germans begun to prosper after many years of freedom.
What’s up with prices at the pump and why it could be a good sign
All of us loved paying less than $2 a gallon at the pump. The AAA reports: “Americans paid cheapest quarterly gas prices in 12 years”—which resulted in savings of nearly $10 billion compared to the same period last year. However, oil (and, therefore gasoline) has been creeping upward since the February low—topping $45 a barrel, a high for the year. And that could be a good thing. While low prices at the pump have been a boon to consumers, the plunge in oil prices has been a bust for American producers. Throughout the past 20 months, crude oil prices have dropped [...]
Why Socialism failed
Collectivism is based on faulty principles
Dirty facts behind Obama’s Clean Power Plan
The Clean Power Plan might be more aptly named the Grab Power Plan -- as its intent is to empower the EPA to grab power over electricity regulation and force a shift toward unproven renewable energy (if it were clearly a better deal, there would be no need for mandates). States are lining up to oppose this power grab, which might result in massive energy shortages long before 2030.
Regcession—why Americans aren’t feeling Obama’s “vigorous recovery”
Marita Noon asks, rather than complain when U.S. businesses take jobs overseas, why not just create a more favorable business climate here at home? One reason, she notes, is the penchant for the EPA and other federal agencies to over-regulate business and industry, adding costs and shrinking opportunities. She encourages everyone to watch a new film, “Regcession: The EPA is Destroying America,” on YouTube.