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The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that Hasn’t Occurred

Since late December 2008, the bank prime lending rate—the interest rate banks charge their best corporate customers—has remained steady at 3.25 percent. Meanwhile, during the same period, the excess...

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Jobs Program Video: “How to Create a Job, Not Just Work”

I recently recorded a short video on “jobs” programs. Here it is:

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More “Green” Energy Cronyism and Corporate Welfare

The New York Times reports in “A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search” that NRG Energy is receiving nearly $1.6 billion in government subsidies for its new compound in California of almost one...

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Student Loan Forgiveness: Bread and Circuses for the 21st Century

In late June Congress acted to freeze the interest rate on certain college loans at 3.4 percent for an additional year, claiming this move would help make college more affordable. Of course, a relative...

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Claim that Unemployment Figures Were Cooked Not so “Ludicrous” After All?

When the September unemployment figures were announced a month before the presidential election as having miraculously declined to below 8% for the first time since the current administration started,...

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Obama’s Trifecta: The 3 Biggest Lies

With his latest ad, “Your First Time,” President Barack Obama has now completed his trifecta on the the 3 Biggest Lies in the World. You remember those, don’t you? #1: The check is in the mail. #2: I’m...

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Your Tax Dollars at Work at the Ex-Im Bank

Following up on my nationally syndicated column on the pending re-authorization of the Export-Import Bank (“Let the Ex-Im Bank Fail”), the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of...

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Tax Freedom Day, 2015

The Tax Foundation announces “Tax Freedom Day” every year to mark the date on which the average U.S. taxpayer has earned enough income to pay in full all federal, state and local taxes owed. The date...

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Emily Skarbek Is Interviewed on the Government Cost Calculator on Reason TV

Independent Institute Research Fellow Emily Skarbek is interviewed here by Nick Gillespie of Reason TV regarding the Institute’s very timely and far-reaching Government Cost Calculator. The Calculator...

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