All Posts Tagged With: "budget deficits"
The VAT: Not Just Another Tax
Recently there has been a great deal of speculation about how the U.S. government will deal with its massive budget deficits and increasing levels of debt. For readers of The Freeman the answer is rather simple: Since most of what the federal government does goes beyond its “legitimate” role, cut spending. Drastically. Discussions about balancing [...]
25Aug2010 | Roy Cordato | 3 comments | ContinuedGreece: The Canary in the U.S. Coal Mine?
With everything that was going on in the U.S. economy this past winter, the beginnings of the crisis facing the Greek economy were certainly easy to miss. As that crisis has now come to full flower, American observers overlook it at their peril: Greece’s problems, and those of other European countries, might well represent a [...]
29Jun2010 | Steven Horwitz | 13 comments | ContinuedYour Government at Work
Here at a glance is what the U.S. government is up to fiscally. Don’t look at this before bedtime. Hat tip: Mario Rizzo.
11Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedSmart Economics: Commonsense Answers to 50 Questions about Government, Taxes, Business, and Households
By Michael L. Walden Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Jan2007 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedDeficits Do Matter
Hans Sennholz served as president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1992 to 1997. At the time of his retirement, FEE’s Board of Trustees honored him with the title president emeritus. He was chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College for many years. This article is reprinted from the December 1986 [...]
1Mar2004 | Hans F. Sennholz | 8 comments | ContinuedTo Renew America
Wesley Allen Riddle is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, where he teaches the elective course in the American political tradition. To Renew America is a good book worth reading. That said, one hastens to add that it is not a profound book; moreover, it is not [...]
1Mar1996 | Wesley Allen Riddle | 0 comments | Continued-
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