Daily Archives: November 4, 2011

Once again, Don Boudreaux makes a fool of Paul Krugman, this time over the issue of economic mobility. 4 November 2011 Editor, The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Dear Editor: Paul Krugman labels those who interpret data on income distribution differently than he does “obfuscators” (“Oligarchy, American Style,” Nov. 4).Continue Reading

Vote early and vote often – and we have here and here and here and here – on whether a photo ID should be required in order to vote.  North Carolina is one of 19 states (most with Democratic governors) that does not require a photo ID to vote.  See this interactive map for moreContinue Reading

Obama’s latest executive order, out on Monday, decries the shortage of pharmaceutical drugs. His proposals, however, will do nothing to increase supply; rather, they push for more paperwork and counterproductive lawsuits. As I point out in my latest commentary with The Future of Freedom Foundation, “Eliminate Medicine Shortages with Imports,” he need only look at oneContinue Reading

Elon University has a new poll out showing that a majority — 66 percent — of North Carolinians “support” or “strongly support” raising taxes “on Americans with incomes over one million dollars a year.” In a poll from September, the Civitas Institute phrased the question differently and got a more divided response. Fifty-percent of likelyContinue Reading

Jonah Goldberg’s “The Goldberg File” has done it again, given me belly laughs on this damp and dreary Friday. His analysis of the Cain controversy: Cain’s impressive performance in the polls is almost surely not the result of his campaign genius. It’s a product of the fact that Cain’s an impressive, charming guy with aContinue Reading

Here is an excellent discussion of the many solutions to the housing crisis, all of them disasters except this one. Ludwig von Mises explained that one government intervention leads to an endless succession of interventions to deal with the effects of the first and subsequent interventions. Ultimately, it comes down to two choices. “Either capitalismContinue Reading

As has been reported, JLF has sent letters to various school districts and other governmental bodies requesting that they remove advocacy material from their web sites.  The advocacy by these governmental bodies in favor of sales tax referendums isn’t limited to web-related materials only, and therefore I have asked for a wide range of records.Continue Reading

If you think the debates between John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek would interest no one but economists, author Nicholas Wapshott offers a different perspective. In this snippet from his hourlong Hayek Lecture at Duke University Thursday, Wapshott discusses the impact of the Keynes-Hayek debate on present-day American politics.