by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 31, 2018
The “new normal” is 2 percent economic growth as we were endlessly told by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supporters in the 2016 campaign. Unlike all previous administrations, economic growth never reached a 3 percent annual rate during the Obama years. Many...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 24, 2018
There are a number of international organizations and U.S. government agencies that should be abolished because they both destroy wealth and liberty. Officials of the Trump administration understand the problem but do not have the ability to take the corrective...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 17, 2018
Increasing numbers of people find themselves in legal never-never land, where they cannot follow the law of their home country without violating the law of another country for which they can be prosecuted. Intelligence agents of all countries have always faced such...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 10, 2018
“Public choice theory” in economics, in part, explains the way self-interest of those in government and other institutions motivates them to avoid solving problems in order to keep their jobs and perks. Now, a new series of studies by researchers at Harvard and other...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jul 3, 2018
This past week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-proclaimed socialist, won the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in New York. Why would a sane person advocate a political movement that was responsible for well over a hundred million deaths in the last...
