Investors Business Daily April 1, 1999 Is This How Tariffs Should Work? Protectionists share a faith that says tariffs protect American workers. If they would only look at the U.S. suit-making business, they could see the ruinous effects of this line of thinking. In the last decade, the domestic tailored- clothing industry lost nearly half its
Investor’s Business Daily April 16, 1999 Why the Worst Get On Top When ‘’The Road To Serfdom’’ was published, smart people turned up their noses at the groundbreaking free-market book. In Great Britain - where the book’s author, economist F.A. Hayek lived - the Labor Party was in ascendancy. The U.S. was still swooning over the New Deal. Most
Investors Business Daily April 27, 1999 The Internet’s Privacy Hounds Thus far the Internet has been flying fast and high with little regulation. It hasn’t been grounded by taxes, nor has it been shackled by government interference. But this happy state of affairs may not last. Lawmakers have apparently reached the limits of their self-control.
THE ANIMATING CONTEST FOR FREEDOM This July 4th we celebrate once again the beginning of an amazing venture--the American experiment in ordered liberty. In the conflict and tumult of politics today it is easy to forget the spirit of 1776 and the ideas on which this nation was founded. We must not. Two revolutions contend for the American soul. The
From INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Appearing on July 9, 1999 If voters named you economic czar, what would you do? Let’s say you got rid of the market economy. You had to plan all output yourself. Could you do it? Well, let’s make your task a little easier. You just have to plan the production of this year’s wheat crop. You have to get it to market at
Investors Business Daily January 27, 1999 Author: Charles Oliver Is it the back door to socialism or the only way to keep the Social Security system solvent? That’s what people are asking about President Clinton’s proposal to invest a big chunk of the federal budget surplus in the stock market. Under Clinton’s proposal, the feds would pump some
Investors Business Daily February 19, 1999 It goes by many names: national service, selective service, conscription, the draft. All four have been heard in recent discussions in Washington about the military’s staffing problems. The All Volunteer Force is facing its toughest trial in its 26-year history. The Navy is 22,000 sailors short of its
Investors Business Daily March 1, 1999 America’s Masochistic Business Class by William H. Peterson The aim of politics, H.L. Mencken observed, “is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” One popular hobgoblin is the businessman. Item:
Two Recent editorials from the Investors Business Daily It looks like Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘’four freedoms’’ will have to make room for a fifth. Republicans have virtually joined their Democratic brethren in adding one more to the list FDR proclaimed - freedom from responsibility. FDR said there were four essential human freedoms: of
Investors Business Daily February 16, 1999 Will the term-limits movement’s drive to rid Washington of career politicians end up backfiring? The grass-roots movement successfully convinced a number of lawmakers to pledge they’d leave Congress by a certain date. But a lot of those who’ve given up their public offices have decided they won’t leave
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