All Posts Tagged With: "New York Times"
Gun Owners Have a Right to Privacy
If you own a gun in Illinois, take precautions. The state attorney general, Lisa Madigan, wants to release the names of gun owners in response to an Associated Press request. Publication of that list would tell the criminal class where the guns are, which could be useful to two different sorts of lawbreakers: gun thieves [...]
25May2011 | John Stossel | 8 comments | ContinuedWill Increasing Taxes Bring Economic Recovery?
In its August 1 edition the editors of the Gray Lady published a lengthy editorial that claimed our economy is in trouble because tax rates are too low.
4Aug2010 | William L. Anderson | 6 comments | ContinuedA Triple Whammy for Austrian Economics
They say that when economic times are good businesses can get away with sloppy practices. In the intellectual world, however, it seems that sloppy thinking prevails in desperate times and important distinctions get thrown out the window. A good example of this appeared recently in a March 4 New York Times article titled “Ivory Tower [...]
19Aug2009 | Sandy Ikeda | 9 comments | ContinuedShame on You, Paul Krugman
We are certainly used to the fallacious Keynesian “economics” that pours forth from most of Paul Krugman’s New York Times columns. That’s bad enough. But dishonesty too? What’s the excuse for that? In a recent column called “Fifty Herbert Hoovers,” Krugman expressed fear that the nation’s governors would follow in the footsteps of Hoover, with [...]
5Jan2009 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedMarkets Need a Hidden Fist?
When I want to jump-start my Sunday by kicking up my blood pressure a few points, I head down the driveway for the Sunday New York Times. Some weeks it is the front page that does the trick, other weeks the op-ed page. Few Sundays have given me a more eye-popping, artery-clearing boost, however, than [...]
1Aug1999 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedInscrutable Follies
“Don’t bother to examine a folly—ask yourself what it accomplishes.” —Ayn Rand, The FountainheadPardon if I sound like a character out of Dostoyevsky, but is it a sign I am mad when I am unable to understand what should be a simple newspaper article about taxing and spending in Washington? A New York Times article [...]
1Apr1999 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedCreative Apathy
One man’s bugaboo is another man’s delight. Consider this quotation: We don’t even care about Washington. Money is extracted from Silicon Valley and then wasted by Washington. I want to talk about people who create wealth and jobs. I don’t want to talk about unhealthy and unproductive people. If I don’t care enough about the [...]
1Aug1998 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Fortnight
We opened a door to the Soviets and, after some fumbling, they walked in. At first, after President Eisenhower’s ill-advised offer to pool atomic resources with Soviet Russia and anybody else, Moscow turned thumbs down on the proposal. If the Soviets had stuck to this rejection, we could have congratulated the Administration on its undeserved [...]
1Jan1954 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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