by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 28, 2014
The administration and many in Congress seem to have learned nothing from the Obamacare disaster. Now that they have destroyed the world’s best health care system, they are in the process of further destroying what was at one time a very functional global...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 21, 2014
Without the rule of law, a civil and prosperous society cannot long endure. The annual reports of “The Economic Freedom of the World” and the “Index of Economic Freedom” show very large declines in the international ranking of the United States in the rule of law over...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 14, 2014
Are business people more corrupt than those in government? Hollywood loves to portray those in business as the baddies and those in government as the good guys. Exhibit A is the new movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the largely true story of con man Jordan Belfort....
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 7, 2014
The struggle between the productive and the destructive never ends. The productive are those who add more value and wealth than they consume, and the destructive are those who destroy more value and wealth than they create. Will 2014 be a year of production or...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 6, 2014
THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY: RISK, HUMAN NATURE, AND THE FUTURE OF FORECASTING By Alan Greenspan Penguin Press, $36, 388 pages Alan Greenspan began his career in economics as an analyst and forecaster. In his new book “The Map and the Territory,” Mr....
