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 […]
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I’m 19 years old. Every time I get a paycheck, about 5% is missing, gone to a line that says “Social Security.” Theoretically, when I turn 65 I’ll start receiving a check every month or so based upon how much money I’ve earned in my life. I don’t think this is going to happen. I
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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.
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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
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NYC Congressional Delegation in Minority in Opposing Federal Reserve Audit Posted using ShareThis
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Senate coup restores sweet gridlock to Albany Posted using ShareThis
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George Orwell once noted that at any given moment there is a general tacit agreement not to discuss some large and uncomfortable fact, and the sad fact is there’s such an agreement out and about concerning a gold standard versus a paper standard. Trust me, believing in a gold standard makes me the lunatic on
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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.
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The ads for New York Lottery’s Take Five game claim the odds of winning are 1 in 9. But the odds of winning even the smallest cash prize are actually 1 in 109. Today I filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the New York Lottery’s deceptive advertising practices and wrote all about
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In my latest dispatch for the Examiner, I follow up on my earlier column about the conflict of interest between the Federal Reserve and the banks it regulates. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Bank of New York chairman Stephen Friedman resigned amid questions about his ongoing role as a director and major shareholder of bank holding
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