Free Markets

Guest Post: former Speaker of the NH House, Bill O’Brien on the passing of Margaret Thatcher

April 8, 2013

Rep. William O’Brien’s Comments on the Passing of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minster of Great Britain and the indispensable philosophical, political and international ally of Ronald Reagan, died this morning. Lady Thatcher was a giant of conservative values and action.  Along with President Reagan, Margaret Thatcher inspired us with her thoughtful and unflinching [ Read more ]

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Another, more descriptive term for Capitalism?

December 25, 2012

Innovationism: Deirdre McCloskey says somewhere that a better name for capitalism is “innovationism” – innovationism unleashed only in societies in which private property rights are at least reasonably secure, freedom of contract is at least reasonably the norm, markets are at least reasonably free, and (importantly) the multitude of bourgeois merchants and accountants and actuaries [ Read more ]

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“What is moral about the free market?”

November 12, 2012

One of my favorite economists is Dr. Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University.  He is always able to take the complicated, boil it down, and make it easy to understand.  Given that the whole notion of what capitalism and the free marketplace can do (versus the socialistic turn we seem to [ Read more ]

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There is a difference between the Free Market and the Government Market

September 20, 2012

And TreeHugger decided to demonstrate that, with clueless irony, all on their own.  Yes, one more from TreeHugger that shows that Environmentalism has really left its roots of DOING environmental work and very much all about getting Big Government and its big teat (and very much, dependent on that teat) to do it instead as [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Milton Friedman (on the occasion of the birth of this Nobel Prize winning economist)

July 31, 2012

What the market does is to reduce greatly the range of issues that must be decided through political means, and thereby to minimize the extent to which government need participate directly in the game.  The characteristic feature of action through political channels is that it tends to require or enforce substantial conformity.  The great advantage [ Read more ]

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Again,Elites are trying to get rid of Capitalism – but we can see it is not an economics system problem but a problem of morality

January 23, 2012

Every year, the Elites of the political, economic, and cultural worlds gather in Davos, Switzerland to talk about global ‘stuff’ – what’s trending, what’s wrong, and their global ways of fixing them what they believe is wrong – for the betterment of us all.  Hate to keep sounding like a broken record but even with [ Read more ]

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Democrat’s Say The Dumbest Things

November 6, 2011

Mr. Morse and the left would have you believe that jobs spring from government like Eve from the rib of Adam. They do not want to admit that ‘government’ is itself a luxury item that must be paid for like anything else’ by the product of the private sector risk taking. Good government cannot exist without the conscience of better men giving a portion of their property for some guarantee of stability and a promise to protect their property in exchange.

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Two Dick’s & Obama’s Vitamin Police

October 10, 2011

Long story short, if the regs went into place the vitamin shelf at the store would be emptied until supplement makers submitting test results to the FDA and the products were approved. And the added for battling the bureaucracy and testing regime? You’d be paying that when they products went back on the shelf, if they did.

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A 63-YEAR OLD REMINDER OF FREEDOM

September 6, 2011

CROSS-POSTED

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Bernanke’s Bender

August 16, 2011

Bernanke, who sources confirmed was “totally sloshed,” arrived at the drinking establishment at approximately 5:30 p.m., ensconced himself upon a bar stool, and consumed several bottles of Miller High Life and a half-dozen shots of whiskey while loudly proclaiming to any patron who would listen that the economic outlook was “pretty goddamned awful if you want the God’s honest truth.”

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Progressive Trade Rules

November 14, 2010

Being beholden to unions causes you to say and do stupid things.  Take Carol Shea-Porter for example.  She was against a trade deal with Panama because she claimed it would cost American jobs, when it would actually open up trade from us to them–they already had unfettered access; result?–it would have created American jobs. Provisions [ Read more ]

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Destroying The Future Of America

October 10, 2010

Democrats continue to insist that they created jobs.  To do this they extracted trillions from our economic future in an effort to create jobs that did not yet exist–that perhaps were  not needed yet.  Looking at similar exercises, cash for clunkers–which moved car sales forward a few months but has since resulted in a collapse [ Read more ]

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What About Bob?

August 16, 2010

Congressional Candidate Bob Bestani is what you might call a well-connected ruling class insider.  He has spent years as part of the evil international banking community and he is proud of his work for the Asian Development Bank (ADB).  According to his Campaign site Bio Until May of 2008, Bob served as the Director General [ Read more ]

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Choices – by YOU and ME, or by Big Govt?

August 2, 2010

Professor Arthur Brooks started out as a liberal teaching at Syracuse University – and started to change his views when his data that formed the core of his book ""Who Really Cares-The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism"" showed that the liberal mantra of "we care for the poor – conservatives are the cold hearted ones!" [ Read more ]

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“Jobs created OR SAVED” – Such a meme!

August 1, 2010

Saved or Created  vs.  Killed or Thwarted ? Certainly, the first (Saved or Created) is what the Obama Administration has been talking up since the inauguration.  Sure, one CAN figure out when a new job has been created (although the Census job hiring / firing process certainly seemed to have monkeyed with the numbers with [ Read more ]

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Milton Friedman does a smack down of Michael Moore?

August 1, 2010

Did not have a lot of time for blogging last week, so I have a few bookmarks that I’m going through right no a w.  I watched this video and Friedman comes to the right conclusion: is the young man arguing about an absolute principle (the saving of a life) or simply some amount of [ Read more ]

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RightOnline-General Session Speaker: Phil Kerpen

July 30, 2010

Phil Kerpen is the Vice President of Policy for Americans for Prosperity (sponsors of RightOnline) so it made sense for him to speak at his own conference.  The main thrust of his talk was summed up by a quote from Van Jones, that if green jobs are the death of capitalism, and he has been [ Read more ]

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RightOnline-General Session Speaker: Ed Morrissey of Hot Air

July 28, 2010

Amusing and horrifying at the same time!  Ed’s speech brought back my remembrances of the 70′s.  Sure – I gradumacated from high school, earned my first degree, and entered into the work force full time – smack dab into an economy that wasn’t as bright as my graduation speakers ("The sky is the limit for [ Read more ]

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CSP Rewind – Foreign Trade

July 15, 2010

Carol Shea Porter (CSP) continues to demonstrate her inability to grasp even the most basic concepts of governance.  Back in May of 2009 she issued a press release promoting her signing on to a letter suggesting that the Panama Trade Promotion Agreement, (TPA) also called the Panama Free trade agreement (FTA), would in essence cost [ Read more ]

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Drop Dead Fed

June 30, 2010

In the most recent issue of National Review Gary Wolfram, Professors of Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College wrote this in regard to Mises and Hayek’s Austrian business-cycle theory.   ""This theory emphasizes the role of the interest rate in bringing together the plans of producers and consumers. The interest rate is the price of loanable funds — in [ Read more ]

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Starving Leeches

April 7, 2010

In every argument convenient to their agenda, liberals like to whine about ‘sustainable resources.’  They pride themselves on their promise to manage resources for the future.  They brag about their compassion for the environment.  But liberals are the worst resource managers the world has ever seen because they ignore the single most important resource of [ Read more ]

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A checkpoint for those that are blaming free market capitalism…

March 20, 2010

I don’t ordinarily repost entire posts verbatim; when I do, I let you know.  Consider yourselves informed. One of the raging controversies that is du jour is "has capitalism died"?  Do we have to replace it?  And if so, what?  Socialists / Progressives all say this has been caused by free market capitalism – oh [ Read more ]

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Creative Destruction

March 18, 2010

What was once a mainstay of the home entertainment zeitgeist is about to be altered, perhaps forever.  Blockbuster has announced that it may have to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  Apparently the once mighty rental giant does not fall into the too big to fail category nor does it qualify for some kind of [ Read more ]

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