by Richard W. Rahn | Feb 23, 2016
What the world’s major central banks have been doing is not working. Rather than go back to the tried and true, they are now digging in deeper on policies that are bound to fail, such as the move to negative interest rates, which many will find personally harmful. The...
by Richard W. Rahn | Feb 16, 2016
This past week, a majority of the members of the Supreme Court gave notice that there is a limit to how much of their and Congress power they will allow the executive branch to grab. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been expanding its own definitions of...
by Richard W. Rahn | Feb 9, 2016
What does a “progressive” stand for? How does this differ from what a liberal, conservative or libertarian stands for? More so than in most years, the presidential candidates are debating about labels. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders got into an...
by Richard W. Rahn | Feb 2, 2016
A major reason for the growing distrust of government is the double standard whereby government officials and employees often suffer no consequences from incompetence, misbehavior and even criminal violations of the law. In the common law, there is a general principle...
