by Andrew West | Dec 24, 1999 | Asia, Economics, WORLD
Hong Kong’s new government appears to be losing its inhibitions about contradicting market prices, favoring some industries over others, and using taxpayers’ money to dispense windfall profits to those in favor. The deal recently signed with Disney to...
by Edwin A Locke | Dec 24, 1999 | Religion
Michael Novak’s “How Christianity Created Capitalism,” (The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 1999) makes interesting fiction reading, but it totally ignores all the essential issues. The essential elements of religion are: supernaturalism (God...
by Richard M Salsman | Dec 22, 1999 | POLITICS
Part 3 of 6 in a Series of articles on Capitalism, Free-competition, Antitrust, and MicrosoftThe following article is an adaptation of a lecture Mr. Salsman gave at Harvard University, in May of 1999. The print version has been edited lightly in order to retain...
by Andrew Lewis | Dec 19, 1999 | Crime, POLITICS
Forget the Lindbergh Kidnapping. The Crime of the Century is Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Finding of “Fact” against Microsoft. The 207 page condemnation of Microsoft as a “monopoly” that “hurts consumers,” is one of the...
by Larry Elder | Dec 16, 1999 | POLITICS
“I was spellbound.” A black minister, attending a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley, made this gushing assessment. Bradley addressed 150 black ministers in Los Angeles, at an annual meeting of the Congress of National Black Churches....
by Andrew Lewis | Dec 14, 1999 | POLITICS
Q. Is it immoral for an Objectivist to join a political party? Why doesn’t the Ayn Rand Institute have its own political party? A. It is not immoral to join a political party, although given the state of the major parties today, it may well be. The reason for...
by John David Lewis | Dec 13, 1999 | Europe, POLITICS
For years the socialists have been claiming that England should join the single European currency (the Euro) and should follow a central economic policy as voted by all 15 nations. England, we are told, faces dire economic woes if it fails to join the economic...
by Andrew West | Dec 10, 1999 | Asia, POLITICS
On July 4, the US celebrated its 223rd birthday with hot dogs, cotton candy, ice-cream and fireworks. There was much self-congratulation but few tributes to the day’s real meaning. July 4, 1776 was the day the Continental Congress approved and signed the...
by Larry Elder | Dec 9, 1999 | Economics, POLITICS
What do the World Trade Organization protesters, President Clinton, and the Microsoft judge have in common? Answer: an almost appalling ignorance of Economics 101. The World Trade Organization, a consortium of 135 nations, met in Seattle to discuss ways to increase...
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