Category: Economics & Tax Policy
Yaron Brook speaking in Lafayette this evening
Oct 8th
I'll be attending tonight's Liberty on the Rocks Flatirons event. The guest speaker will be Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand Institute, and a proud radical for capitalism. If you've never heard Yaron speak, I highly recommend you attend the event… more »
Brian Wesbury: The Futility of Quantitative Easing
Sep 28th
In my view, the long-term damage done by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will be looked back on through history with equal scorn as that eventually heaped on Alan Greenspan. They each completely ignored the obvious negative consequences of holding interest ra… more »
Tax Cuts for Your Love Life
Sep 25th
While on the tour of college campuses and late-night talk shows that serves as his campaign trail (despite seeming more appropriate for an aging rock band trying to make a few bucks off its past glory), President Barack Obama has been railing against t… more »
Ending the Economic Error
Sep 5th
Barack Obama and his supporters at the Democratic National Convention will mostly avoid the topic of unemployment, as unfavorable a subject as that is for Democrats' reelection chances. Still, we will inevitably hear a mantra like "the trend is in the r… more »
My 2011 Interview of Paul Ryan
Aug 14th
For those of you who are interested in hearing Paul Ryan in his own words prior to his selection as Mitt Romney's running mate, I offer you this extended interview I had with Congressman Ryan in May, 2011 when I was the host of Backbone Radio on 710 KNU… more »
Ross on for Peter Boyles, Friday Aug 10
Aug 9th
For those of you who want to give me a listen, I'll be guest-hosting for the one-and-only Peter Boyles on Friday, August 10 from 5 AM to 9 AM Mountain Time (7 AM to 11 AM Eastern) on Denver's 630 KHOW.
You can listen online with the link on KHOW's web… more »
No, YOU didn't build that!
Aug 3rd
Speaking in Roanoke, Virginia, on July 13, President Barack Obama famously uttered the words that may come to define him and the 2012 presidential campaign: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
The truth i… more »
Just Say No
Jul 20th
It was one of the earliest defining moments of this presidential campaign. It left the White House accusing the early field of Republicans of being out of touch and, typical of Democrats' now-tired rhetoric, beholden to "millionaires and billionaires" a… more »
Thelma and Louise Economics
Jul 18th
Things didn't end all that well for Thelma and Louise, in the eponymous 1991 Ridley Scott film, as they drove off a cliff in a desperate effort to evade legal and moral responsibility for having transformed themselves from non-descript mediocrities into… more »
Bernanke Twists Asset Prices
Jun 21st
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke annouced the Fed's ectension of "Operation Twist" using a justification of weaker than expected economic performance.
I, along with a few others affiliated with the Heartland Institute, commented o… more »
