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What’s Next? Buckle Up
Guest Commentary The Republican Party, with the help of the Tea Party, swept the House of Representatives with a massive pickup of at least 60 seats. The Federal Reserve made another historic announcement with its $600-billion “Quantitative Easing” program (QE2). … Continue reading
Mission Impossible: Rescuing the Dollar
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
Tough Times Ahead: Gridlock and Quantitative Easing Are Not Enough
Now that the elections are over, attention is turning to the economy. The stock market rose steadily from the end of August up to the elections. Since the stock market tends to be forward-looking, its recent strong and steady rise … Continue reading
The Great Corrective
On November 4, 2008, something incredible happened, something that will never again allow me to predict or trust the American electorate, regardless of the great corrective that happened this Tuesday, November 2, 2010. For one, the American voter decisively elected … Continue reading
Controlling the Fed
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
Dangerous Election-Year Demagoguery on Trade
As is customary in the days leading up to an election, the campaign rhetoric is getting heated. Here in western Pennsylvania, Democrats have gained points in the polls by adopting an aggressively protectionist ad campaign. Democratic candidates for the House … Continue reading
How the Progressives Will Win
Karl Marx once commented that voters’ choices in a democracy constituted little more than deciding which bourgeois party would oppress them the most. The old misanthrope’s views on such matters are usually worth ignoring, but he had a point with … Continue reading
STREAMING VIDEO — Executive Director Lectures on His Latest Book Release at the Heritage Foundation
To read a description of this book event and view a streaming video of the Heritage Foundation lecture, please click on the link below: “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”
STREAMING VIDEO — National Press Club Lecture on “Dupes and Why Communism Still Matters”
To view a streaming video of this National Press Club lecture in Washington, D.C., please click on the links below: “Dupes and Why Communism Still Matters” (Part 1) “Dupes and Why Communism Still Matters” (Part 2) “Dupes and Why Communism … Continue reading
Breakdown
You’ve probably seen the headlines about major banks suspending foreclosure proceedings to reclaim houses from borrowers who have defaulted on their mortgages. This has the potential to be hugely disruptive—a milestone development comparable to the failure of Lehman Brothers in … Continue reading
STREAMING VIDEO — "Cows, Communists, and Cell Phones"
To view a streaming video of this event from the Freedom Readers Lecture Series, please click on the link below: “Cows, Communists and Cell Phones: An economics lecture most students will never hear” For MAC users: If you experience difficulty playing … Continue reading
Follow the Stem Cell Money
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
“I Want Your Money”
Today, October 15, the dynamite documentary, “I Want Your Money,” opens at theaters nationwide. The release of this film so close to the midterm elections on November 2 is no coincidence. “IWYM” is a cry of the heart from its … Continue reading
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch—or Free Healthcare
A few days ago, I received an email from the daughter of our congresswoman—a mass email, of course. She explained that because of healthcare reform, which her mother supported, she no longer had to pay a $25 copayment for each … Continue reading
A Tea Party American Cheat Sheet
The Tea Party Movement, otherwise known as the Great Peasant Revolt of 2010, has been greeted by the country’s ruling class with all the sympathy that Voltaire expressed toward the Catholic Church: “Kill the infamous thing!” Although the American Revolution … Continue reading
V&V PAPER — Voluntary Exchanges and the Free Market
Editor’s Note: “On the broadest level, Dr. Ritenour and I are both interested in the relationship between social conditions and human action. We are both advocates of free markets, believing that they contribute more to human thriving than other arrangements. We … Continue reading
Reflections on the GOP Pledge
Last week, 13 Republicans released a “Pledge to America.” What is most surprising to me is its length. At 21 pages, it was many times the length of the GOP’s hugely successful 1994 “Contract with America.” Why ditch a winning … Continue reading
Money and Freedom
Written by the administrative director of The Center for Vision & Values for WORLD Magazine. Read the article.
AUDIO — “Between the Covers” — Paul Kengor on DUPES
On September 21, the Executive Director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, Dr. Paul Kengor, discussed his most recent book—“Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century”—on “Between the Covers,” with National Review … Continue reading