Posts Tagged ‘ unions ’

How So-Called Sweatshops Help the Poor

May 2nd, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
One of the oldest myths about capitalism is the notion that factories that offer the poor higher wages to lure them off the streets (and away from lives of begging, stealing, prostitution, or worse) or away from back-breaking farm labor somehow impoverishes and exploits them. They are said to work ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured | 13 comments


A Review of Ron Paul’s Liberty Defined

Apr 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Sometimes Ron Paul seems too good to be true. For decades he has championed the cause of liberty and sound monetary and geopolitical policy. He has done this in the very heart of the Leviathan state even as the federal government has accelerated its expansion in the postwar years. Further ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Macro Economics, Politics | 5 comments


The Political Economy of Government Employee Unions

Feb 28th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The main reason so many state and local governments are bankrupt, or on the verge of bankruptcy, is the combination of government-run monopolies and government-employee unions. Government-employee unions have vastly more power than do private-sector unions because the entities they work for are typically monopolies. When the employees of a grocery ...read more

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Madison Protests Show State Monopolies Are Unaffordable

Feb 23rd, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Your Whiskey editor may spend all of his time bouncing between Baltimore and New York, but he is too close to Madison, Wisconsin, for comfort. A very dear friend hails from Madison. Both her sister and brother-in-law still live in the Madison suburbs and work for the state. Both belong to ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics | 4 comments


Homeschool to Harvard

May 5th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
This is the story that the teachers unions wish had never happened. This is the story that proves all their hysterical demands for more money are nothing but a sham. This is the story that makes the unions and education bureaucrats sick to their stomachs. This is the personal story ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Politics | 37 comments


Another Waxman Whitewash?

Feb 16th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
A story buried on page 16 of the Thursday, February 11, 2010 Financial Times once again confirms that our “regulatory” process simply doesn’t work. The article entitled US Safety Watchdog Under Attack reports that the United States car safety watchdog is under attack from Congress and from consumer advocates for ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 8 comments


Tires from China and the Tyranny of Tariffs

Sep 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Looks like Boy Blunder Two is going to do it again, breaking campaign promises, endangering the economy by pandering to outraged union members, annoying the USA's biggest creditor, and imposing yet another enormous tax on the American people who drive cars. This time the Messiah proposes to increase the tariff ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Macro Economics | 11 comments