Abstract: In response to the recent financial crisis, the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve Board are capping executive salaries and bonuses, and imposing a host of new regulations and mandates--all in the name of reducing risk. If the rule of unintended consequences applies anywhere, it ...

Read more: Why Government Control of Bank Salaries Will Hurt, Not Help, the Economy

Mises Daily

[Can Capitalism Survive? Creative Destruction and the Global Economy • By Joseph Schumpeter • New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009 • 208 pages]

The most famous chapters of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracyhave been republished in paperback under ...

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Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) last night [10/26/2009] and today [10/27/2009] is once again using his leadership position to make false claims about E-Verify's reliability and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship.

But while he laments the 125,000 who ...

Read more: Sen. Durbin Works To Help Illegal Aliens Unemployment Benefits

The National Center for Public Policy Research

Far from providing "affordable" care for everyone, as President Obama has promised,¹the main health care proposals working their way through Congress would in fact come at a painful price - higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, ...

Read more: No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare

DeepCapture.com

As should be clear from the contents of Deep Capture, the world of illegal naked short selling is a weird one, populated by sociopathic billionaires, slick lobbyists, famous felons, bent regulators, crooked law firms, corporate spies, message board maniacs, sinister banks, shifty ...

Read more: On Rolling Stone, Penson Financial, the Mafia, and Naked Short Selling

We continue to see much more upside than downside risk to bullion for three main reasons: 1. The economic case for owning gold remains strong. Notwithstanding the growing chorus of bullish sentiment, debate remains strong as to how "real" this perceived recovery is. With the fear of a significant ...

Read more: Gold: Three Reasons Why The Price Will Go Higher

Larry Parks on the reality of green shoots, the fight against fiat and why Ellen Browne is right about banking but wrong about money

The editors of the Daily Bell are pleased to present this exclusive interview with Dr. Lawrence Parks (pictured left), the Executive Director of the Foundation for ...

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Heritage.org

Another month under President Obama, another 263,000 jobs lost. It was not supposed to be this way. Barack Obama promised America that, if elected President and given control over the nation's economic policies, he would create 3.5 million jobs, beginning with the enactment of a ...

Read more: Obama Jobs Deficit a New Record, Again