In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Desautels Finance Professor Reuven Brenner examines the 1970 essay Whose Country Is America? by Eric Hoffer. Professor Brenner looks at how the...
In an interview last week, President Barack Obama correctly emphasized both that "upside mobility was part and parcel of who we were as Americans" and also that such mobility has been "eroding over...
You have heard about the 鈥渟eismic鈥�, 鈥渟hocking鈥� and 鈥渂ombshell鈥� results from last month鈥檚 vote in Europe for the EU parliament. Many traditional, centrist parties lost ground and in France and in...
The year 2016 started with an insane聽US decision concerning the Middle East and the world: signing a deal on January 16 with Iran鈥檚 mullahs (a deal whose details have not been revealed to these days).
When a government spends beyond its means, the options for paying for the spree are unattractive. It can burden the populace with higher taxes, or it can wipe out a portion of creditors' wealth by...
Demographic changes and increased mobility of people and ideas are posing significant challenges for global commerce, with even emerging economies struggling to match capital with talent. But, in...
Though it was recently announced that productivity in the US rose 1.3% from the previous quarter, Alan Greenspan is worried about the collapse in productivity: 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 the most serious...
"If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy,鈥� Thomas Jefferson said....
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