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Herbert Hoover's bad rapThough Roosevelt gets credit for saving the nation, Hoover was far from a 'do-nothing president.'
Is tanning over-regulated?The recent 'tanning mom' controversy has state and local governments cracking down on tanning bed use. Is that fair?- Facebook IPO dud: Is the future of public companies at risk?In the wake of Facebook's poor stock market debut, is it time to start worrying about the future of publicly traded companies?
Let's leave the labor market aloneThe US labor markets are enormously flexible and dynamic. So why regulate them?
Are universities scared of the online learning movement?Mainline universities loudly proclaim their love of online learning 鈥� and pedagogical innovation more generally 鈥� while doing everything possible to slow it.
Offshore bank accounts: no Americans allowedWealth management firms the world over are declining to open offshore accounts for Americans.
Don't be fooled: Liberals and libertarians don't agreeOn the surface,聽 hard-left liberals and hard-right libertarians may share certain positions. But these agreements are little more than word games.
Argentina: Keeping up with the Chavezes?President Cristina Kirchner's plan to seize a majority stake in oil company YPF SA, owned by Repsol YPF of Spain, is causing diplomatic tensions with Spain and the European Union.聽
How can Venezuela be so rich in resources, but so low in supplies?In the modern world, a country鈥檚 natural resources have very little to do whether goods are on the nation鈥檚 shelves for people to buy. Venezuela is a prime example.
Riding China's inflationary tigerThe Chinese government has made its choice to avoid a 鈥渉ard landing鈥� by attempting to ride the unloosed inflationary tiger for as long as it can. 聽But聽its strategy will exacerbate聽unsustainable imbalances in聽China鈥檚 real economy.
No, Chinese inflation isn't a good signExperts say that Chinese inflation is a natural side effect of a healthy economy. Here's why they're wrong.
New Jersey is taking your gift cardsA new law set to go into effect this year would allow the New Jersey Department of the Treasury to seize unused gift cards as "unclaimed property" after two years. The public outcry has been swift.
Should we change the way we teach economics?Because of the recent financial crisis, teaching the basic principles of economics is harder than ever.
Friends of Traditional Banking: A Super PAC for bankersFrustrated by their lack of political power, the nation's bankers have set up their own campaign donation fund
2012: The year of the junk bondThe first quarter of 2012 will go down as the most active for junk bond issuance since 1980, when Thomson Reuters began keeping track, with 130 companies floating $75 billion in debt offerings.
Will J.C. Penney's new pricing policy succeed?Retailer J.C. Penney announced聽a new pricing policy that will make its prices more rigid and other retailers are moving in that direction.
Las Vegas taxi drivers face high tech challengeTaxis have long been the main transportation method in Las Vegas.聽Now a San Francisco company called Uber Technologies Inc. wants to challenge their dominance through a transportation service based on smartphones.聽
The US government's war on cashBy repeatedly refusing to print money in larger bills, the Feds make it harder to make huge financial transactions and can more easily monitor the financial maneuverings of citizens.
True entrepreneurs don't need encouragementGovernment policies encouraging training of entrepreneurs won't kickstart the economy.
What Bernanke gets wrong about the gold standardThe redistribution created by the Fed鈥檚 monetary pumping actually weakens the economy over time as real savings is squandered on malinvestments. With gold as money, real production and savings is stimulated.聽 Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't understand that.
