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MARKETS
Capitalism, Market Competition and Netflix
Blockbuster’s demise began when it charged a man named Reed Hastings $40 in late fees. That annoyed him so much, he started a subscription-based, mail-order movie rental company he called Netflix.
Weak Dollar Policy: A Bad Plan Poorly Disguised
With our economy sagging and our international clout waning, one of the few assets upon which the United States can rely is the confidence that the rest of the world has traditionally showered upon us. That confidence is the reason why the US dollar was elevated to...
The Currency War: Good for Gold
As the world awaits another $600 billion flood from Bernanke's printing press, central bank governors from Brasília to Tokyo are preparing to respond in kind. This is the monetary equivalent of a nuclear war, except instead of radiation, bombs of inflation...
There Was a Fed Chairman Who Swallowed a Fly
?While it's true that history repeats itself, the patterns should always be separated by a generation or two to keep things respectable. Unfortunately, in today's economic world, it seems the cycle can be counted in months. On July 24, 2009, just as the Federal...
POLITICS
Breonna Taylor Case: Black Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron Called ‘Sellout,’ Compared to Slavemaster
“It’s time to stop telling black Americans what we’re allowed to believe.”
Does Washington Know Best?
Congress and the president are taking over an area of our lives infinitely more challenging and complex than the management of traffic signals and supermarkets, namely our health care system.
Tea Party at the Crossroads
The Tea Party’s principles were clear. But their tactics can only be judged by the consequences.
Why are America’s Top Generals Being Fired?
The nation’s top military generals are being fired by the Obama administration one by one, according to a recent Reuters report. It’s a disturbing trend for several reasons. The government says that each firing does not indicate any type of breach of U.S. military...
CULTURE
Black Education Decline
What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence?
The Rational Basis of Sex: Common Views About Sex (Part 1 of 4)
What is sex? I can picture asking an adolescent boy this question and he’d say “You don’t know…?!”
Crusading to Keep Kids Clueless: Public Education Monopoly Cracks Down on Home Schooling
The public education monopoly can't stand the thought of "unqualified" parents teaching their own children. That is why they are cracking down on home schooling, even as a new study shows that thousands of public school teachers themselves are shamefully unqualified...
Capitalist Principles Would Cure Education Woes
Fundamental problems require fundamental solutions-which can only be derived by thinking in fundamental principles. And that’s precisely what’s absent from discussions on education.
LAW
Obama vs The Rule of Law: On The President’s Selective Enforcement of Immigration Laws
If immigration laws are, as I hold, violations of individual rights, it is up to the courts, not the President, to determine that.
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SCI-TECH
Oily Politicians II: Politicians Play on Consumer Ignorance of Economics
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work. If vast new iron ore deposits are discovered tomorrow in Timbuktu, 99 percent of the people on this planet may be wholly unaware of it -- and...
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WORLD
The Volcker Oil-for-Food Interim Reports: No Exoneration for U.N. Corruption
In order to begin restoring the credibility of the United Nations, Mr. Annan should step down.
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