by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 27, 2015
If you were a librarian, would you put President Obama’s recently delivered State of the Union address in the fiction or nonfiction section? All presidents puff their accomplishments and gloss over their failures, but no previous president has been so blatant in...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 20, 2015
People are a bit more free and prosperous as a result of the work of Gary Becker, John Blundell, Leonard Liggio, Gordon Tullock and Henry Manne, all of whom passed away during the last eight months. Henry Manne, dean emeritus of the George Mason University Law School,...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 13, 2015
Cayman is prosperous, in part, because of a great global lie, which causes many big rich nations to pursue bad economic policies. The global lie is that the developed countries have too little government, rather than too much. That lie causes countries to tax...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 7, 2015
Martin Anderson, well regarded economist and an adviser to three presidents, passed away yesterday. Anderson will go down in history as a significant contributor to both the theory and practice of public policy, as a result of his many influential books and the...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 6, 2015
What is the greatest obstacle confronting the new congressional Republican majority in enacting good policy? It may not be President Obama, because there is an even more formidable force in Washington that crushes good policy: the permanent bureaucracy. The permanent...