In my previous article on the bloated private sector, I failed to adequately explain my main point.

For the past 3 decades faith in the free market powers of the private sector have led to a massive misallocation of resources away from public sector investment. A careful reading of price signals reveal a severe [...]

In January 2000, President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act with great fanfare. The Act had noble intentions and was sold on the guarantee that there would be no student left behind and the strong arm of the government would ensure that the poor would have the same as the rich.
Although the [...]

This year, unemployment rates among young people in the United States have been increasing to levels not seen since the early 1990s. Youth unemployment rates are usually a good indicator of the overall state of an economy, since young people typically face the greatest difficulties in finding employment in times of recession and, lacking experience, [...]

Last week, I looked at the first five planks of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and the extent to which they have been integrated into the U.S. government. This week, I’ll examine planks 6-10.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Check. We have the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the [...]

Will companies that issued derivatives based on bundled student loans be the next financial dominoes that will require a government “bailout”? The country’s long dedication to education makes it a virtual certainty.
The emphasis of the role of government in education predates the establishment of the United States as a country. As early as 1642, a [...]

This article tries to explain the basis on which we make judgments of various things. Often this means working with limited information.

For more than a hundred fifty years, economics has been feared by students, lay people and economists themselves. Not the least source of this fear has been the fact that economics has been labeled as “the dismal science.” The study of economics has been living with its moniker ever since English philosopher Thomas Carlyle ascribed [...]