Category: Government Intervention
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
To Fix U.S. Economy, Stop Government Meddling! / Politics / Government Intervention
By: David_Galland
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Friday, November 04, 2011
The Problem With People Seeing Government as God / Politics / Government Intervention
By: David_Galland
David Galland, The Casey Report writes: While I haven't made a scientific study of the topic, I suspect the leading genre for popular entertainment – and for popular delusions of crowds, for that matter – revolves around magical worlds. As illustration, the Harry Potter series will serve.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Why Innovation Needs Big Government / Economics / Government Intervention
By: Ian_Fletcher
Most people realize that the Federal budget deficit and the trade deficit are serious problems. Unfortunately, as I have argued previously, few people grasp the importance of another big deficit in our economy, without which it will be extremely hard to fix the first two: our innovation deficit. Simply put: despite appearances to the contrary, our economy is not innovative enough. And it’s costing us, big-time.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Real Meaning of "Defense" / Politics / Government Intervention
By: Jeffrey_A_Tucker
The horror of Muammar Gaddafi's approach to keeping power in Libya boggles the mind and shocks the moral conscience. But how different is his approach from the way most all governments behave in the face of citizen revolt? There are differences among them with regard to how far they will go to force submission, but the methods and the rationale everywhere are the same in all times and places.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
End of the Statist Quo, Switzerland's Tempting Tax Regimes Attract UK Firms / Politics / Government Intervention
By: David_Galland
David Galland, Managing Director, Casey Research writes: Here at Casey Research, we have been rather negative about the economy for many moons. To be otherwise in the face of the decades-long trend toward ever more government - along with its increasingly destructive and expensive meddling in the free markets - would have been foolish. And, so far, we have been right.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Can Politicians Help Us? / Politics / Government Intervention
By: Kel_Kelly
The word "politician" usually comes with a negative connotation. It often brings to mind thieving, lying, corruption, and malfeasance. Nonetheless, most people seem to look to politicians to manage their world for them, to protect them, and to make their lives better. In every instance of local or national elections, citizens are deeply focused on choosing the politician they think will do the best for their community or nation. They seek politicians with experience, knowledge, insights, and ideas. They seek a leader.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Obama Is Clueless on the Economy / Politics / Government Intervention
By: Dian_L_Chu
On Labor Day, President Obama announced a new $50-billion infrastructure plan next year as a way of a second stimulus for job creations as well as for the faltering economic recovery. However, the plan is expected to be met with strong opposition in the midst of a mid-term election, while many economists are skeptical as to any swift effect it could have on America's $14.3 trillion economy, as well as the troubling labor market.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
The Government War on Small Business / Economics / Government Intervention
By: Mark_B_Rasmussen
The government DOES NOT "create" productive, value added, sustainable "jobs", Small Business Does!
To help set the stage, let's look at some important stats from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Small businesses:
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
Sloppy G-20 Drunks Can’t Avoid Their Fate / Politics / Government Intervention
By: Justice_Litle
In some ways, the recent G-20 gathering in Canada was like a giant Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, in which the heads of drunk governments promised a return to fiscal sobriety. Fat chance...
"Wall Street got drunk."– George W. Bush, July 2008
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Friday, June 18, 2010
The Exploitation of Entrepreneurs / Politics / Government Intervention
By: MISES
Aaron Smith writes: In our society of victims, entrepreneurs are blamed for many of the hardships that ail our economy. Whether it is because of high prices, low wages, or substandard economic conditions, they are often accused of exploitation in their quest for profits.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
What Does Germany’s Short Selling Credit-Default-Swap Ban Mean for You? / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Germany did something on Tuesday that I've been hoping would happen for three years: It outlawed naked short-selling and speculation on European government bonds with naked credit default swaps.
The financial institutions that have been profiting from this type of speculation immediately went on the offensive.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Speculators are Evil According to EU and Devila Merkel / Politics / Government Intervention
By: Brian_M_Thiesen
God and Markets in general have officially conceted that political masterminds are smarter and better than them.The easiest way to “help” markets is to ignore any and all signals and just go with your gut being the experienced trader you are. Angela I am proud to donate my entire portfolio to you, I consider Germans pretty smart so if they are willing to do it why wouldn’t I be?
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Has The World Had Enough Of Governments?......Market Has!.... / Stock-Markets / Government Intervention
By: Jack_Steiman
When Governments start to intervene on everything maybe it's time for them to stop. Maybe the stock market is sending a message that it has had enough of their constant interference. The Government is trying to make the world pay for others discretions. How many more taxes can they create so we can pay for their bail outs for those who deserve to fail? How many innocent people have to lose their jobs because the Government puts undue tax burdens on corporate America and corporations around the world that will force these corporations to fire employees? At what point does the pot runeth over and we have more than we asked for? Will there be blood on the streets? Riots such as those that we saw in Greece right here in our back yards!
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
The Economic Curse of Good Government / Economics / Government Intervention
By: William_Anderson
As one who has made a career out of criticizing government and exposing the various predations of government, one would think I would be intelligent and wise enough not to expect that entity we know as "good government." In fact, given that I am quite familiar with the entire socialist calculation debate and have assigned numerous papers covering that subject to my MBA students, it should have dawned upon me by now that "good government" is an oxymoron at best and a delusional term at worst.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Government Run Economy, A New Era of Opportunity / Economics / Government Intervention
By: Kieran_Osborne
Could it be that the government is now in the driver's seat of the economy, having replaced the private sector? We certainly don’t believe it is the engine yet, but increasingly it has moved from being the backseat driver directing instructions intermittently, to taking over the steering wheel.