Adam Weissman

Seems to me a significant percentage of Americans don’t really care much about health.  Many of us smoke, drink, are overweight, eat the wrong things and don’t exercise.  of course there are many health conscious Americans who don’t fall into any of those categories.   But  a lot do.    Why should the taxpayer cover their health care?  […]

Dutifully fulfilling it’s role as chief propagandist for the State, today’s New York Times declares that  It is clearly too soon to know for sure. But the evidence is now pointing pretty strongly in one direction: history books may conclude that the financial crisis of 2008 turned out to be far less bad than it

Rand Paul is a candidate for US Senate from Kentucky and he spoke at a fundraiser last night in New York City to a large enthusiastic crowd.  He was joined by Peter Schiff (will he run for Senate too?), Adam Kokesh a candidate for Congress from New Mexico  and Congressman Scott Garrett (NJ).    If anyone was worried

I am giving an award for worst Treasury Secretary. And I am nominating these guys. Hamilton of course is in a class of his own so I am naming it after him. The Alexander Hamilton Award for Worst Treasury Secretary. It all started when I got to thinking the other day about just how bad

It shouldn’t surprise anyone.  Public watchdog groups have been pointing this out for years.  I pointed it out when I ran for Comptroller in 2005.  I even saw Mayor Bloomberg mention it – once.  Public pension costs are probably the single most impotant item creating the structural deficits in New York’s state and local governments. 

Those of us who are fans of Austrian Economics knew it all along.  George McGovern apparently learned it too late.  Barak Obama and his economic advisers seem clueless still.  Government intervention in the economy nearly always does more harm than good.  An online article  ,  How the Stimulus Discourages Hiring , in that bastion of free market

NYC Congressional Delegation in Minority in Opposing Federal Reserve Audit Posted using ShareThis

Senate coup restores sweet gridlock to Albany Posted using ShareThis

C.J. Maloney blogs on Mises about Obama’s surprisingly interventionist foreign policy.  Maloney will also speak at the Manhattan Libertarian Party‘s chapter meeting on June 8.  The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome. Details here.