As a longtime advocate for capitalism, I’ve been considering the prospects for free market ideas in a White House presided over by either of the two major party candidates for president. It’s not an easy challenge. Both candidates, in their own way, misunderstand the need for, and the benefits of, a free economy. And it’s […]
Politics of course gives us all sorts of examples of things which are simply wrong in an economic sense. But it’s rare to see someone proposing something that just doesn’t make sense at all. And yet that’s what Hillary Clinton just did in her speech on the economy Michigan. She repeated the old and entirely […]
Presidential nominee Donald Trump wants “to jump start America,” and thinks “it won’t be that hard.” In a speech delivered at the Detroit Economic Club, he outlined his plan for the economy. It boils down some tax cuts, eliminating regulations, and engaging in trade wars. A significant portion of the speech was spent attacking Hillary […]
Donald Trump is a competitive person. He likes to have bigger things than other people. He says that he has really big hands. His tax cut was larger than the other GOP candidates. And now he says that his infrastructure plan will be double the size of Hillary Clinton’s. The problem is, with the federal […]
Last week, Bernie Sanders announced Hillary Clinton’s new proposal for nationalizing state university systems and reducing what little financial accountability there is in U.S. higher education. Her new plan “will guarantee that the children of any family in this country with an annual income of $125,000 a year or less — 83 percent of our […]