by Richard W. Rahn | Apr 26, 2016
Would you like for the bank to give you a check each month for your mortgage interest payment rather than you paying the bank interest? As mad as that question seems, the fact is that some homeowners in Denmark are now receiving checks each month because their...
by Richard W. Rahn | Apr 19, 2016
Last week, the nation’s largest coal company, Peabody Coal, declared bankruptcy, as have many other coal companies in the past few years. They were victims of the development of fracking technology, which greatly increased the supply and reduced the cost of...
by Richard W. Rahn | Apr 12, 2016
Grand Cayman, C.I. — Were you shocked with the release of the “Panama Papers” to learn of all of the politicians from around the globe who have utilized Panama and other “offshore” entities to set up financial structures to hide their money? If so, you would probably...
by Richard W. Rahn | Apr 5, 2016
Endless cruelties have been and continue to be committed on the basis of group slander. The communists and socialists imprisoned and slaughtered many of their merchant and property-owning citizens on the basis of a gross slander, not to mention what the Nazis did to...
by Richard W. Rahn | Apr 1, 2016
How far can a modern economy sink? The Greek economy is entering its fifth year of decline. Nominal gross domestic product is about 28 percent lower than it was four years ago. The official unemployment rate is 27.5 percent (as though the decimal point matters, given...