by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 28, 2015
If you have been to the beach at Treasure Island, Florida (adjoining St. Petersburg), you will notice something very odd. The hotels (many of which were built in the 1950s and ’60s) and the seawall are very far from the water in the Gulf of Mexico — giving an...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 21, 2015
What recourse does a citizen have when government employees violate the law and do harm, and then they are protected by the government? Government was created to protect person and property and ensure liberty, but it has increasingly become the abuser rather than the...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 14, 2015
What is money? The coin and currency that you have in your pocket? The balances you have in your checking, money market or savings account? How about the value of your stocks and bonds? The government (mainly the Federal Reserve) provides numbers about the money...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 7, 2015
The greatest threat to global security is the rapidly increasing number of failed states. Even though there is no agreed-upon definition of a failed state, it is generally understood that when a government can no longer provide basic security to its people due to a...
