Published by the Foundation for Economic Education
November 21, 2009 | Subscribe via RSS
“FedEx and competitor United Parcel Service (UPS) have benefited on numerous occasions from ‘earmarks,’ which are specific projects that lawmakers add to spending bills, a USA TODAY review shows of the annual transportation spending bills for the past nine years.” (USA Today, Monday)
Pay for your own runways.
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“Welfare for the Rich” by Robert Murphy
In Print:
Barack Obama changed the rules when he intervened in the bankruptcies of GM and Chysler. There's no telling what the consequences will be for the economy. Also in this issue: A Nobel Prize we can rejoice over, a clunker of a government program, and a depression you never heard of.
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by Richard A. Epstein
by Bruce Yandle
by Paul Armentano
by Tyler Watts
by John Stossel
by Thomas Szasz
by Robert Higgs
by Art Carden
Reviewed by William L. Anderson
Reviewed by John Tamny
