All Posts Tagged With: "Wall Street"
Economics on Trial
In today’s robust global economy, the wheat represents genuine prosperity—the new products, technologies, and productivity generated by capitalists and entrepreneurs. It represents real economic growth and when harvested, reflects a true higher standard of living for everyone. Under such conditions, stock prices are likely to rise.
1Sep2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedBad Investment
Deroy Murdock is a co-founder of Third Millennium and a member of the Cato Institute’s Advisory Board on Social Security Privatization. A shorter version of this article appeared in The American Enterprise. In his State of the Union address, President Clinton proposed to invest some $700 billion of the Social Security Trust Fund in corporate [...]
1Sep1999 | Deroy Murdock | 1 comment | ContinuedOn Trial Again
Ms. Kapushion is a freshman at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, where she is majoring in economics with a particular emphasis on the Austrian school of thought. For the last three years, beginning at age fifteen, I have taught myself philosophy straight from the great works of Western thought, and have formally and informally studied economics. [...]
1Mar1997 | Meredith Kapushion | 1 comment | ContinuedPayback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution
Daniel Fischel is eminently qualified to write a book on the attack on Michael Milken and the changes he wrought in the financial world in the 1980s. Fischel is a professor of law at the University of Chicago and also an expert in finance and the securities markets. He writes fearlessly, taking politicians, journalists, judges, [...]
1Mar1996 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued-
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