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The good people over at the Charles Koch Institute have developed a project on economic freedom, which you can find at the eponymous URL: http://www.economicfreedom.org/ In their second YouTube video, they discuss the decline of economic freedom in Ame… more »

I'm Mitt Romney and I'm a successful businessman. In fact, while my Republican opponents and the left's class warfare machine want to hold it against me that I've earned more money than any of the other candidates, it's something I can't and won't apolo… more »

Even the Obama-loving AP has debunked the claim that President Obama will make again tonight, using Warren Buffet's secretary as cannon fodder, that the rich need to pay more in taxes: http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-rich-taxed-less-secretaries-070642… more »

Housing and employment are perhaps two of the most interconnected and politically important economic statistics. Thus, Wednesday's various housing-related data releases -- all of which are positive -- are a welcome sign of things to come, should Europ… more »

Late Tuesday night, after finishing fourth in the New Hampshire primary, former Speaker of the House and current Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich offered some remarks in which he tried, subtly, to say that he supports entrepreneurship and… more »

Don Boudreaux has written a couple of must-read notes aiming to quash common economic misconceptions: More Morici mistakes. Don http://www.cafehayek.com/ 5 January 2012 Prof. Peter Morici Smith School of Business University of Maryland College… more »

I've never seen a baseball player get three strikes on one pitch, but former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich just accomplished the political equivalent. During a Sunday morning Republican debate in New Hampshire, Gingrich suggested that a Super PAC s… more »

In the latest bit of politically-correct economically-ignorant insanity to come from Washington, D.C., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- an organization which should (but won’t) be at the top of any Republican president's list to eli… more »

It's not surprising that President Obama's re-election strategy is to "cast himself as a middle class warrior." What is surprising is that he thinks he can get away with it. The fact that he actually might says less about Obama than about Americans' und… more »

In Tuesday’s House of Representatives debate, Representative Chris van Hollen (D-MD) said that Congress had a responsibility to extend unemployment benefits to those who are “unemployed through no fault of their own.” Minority leader Nancy Pelosi used t… more »