Free Markets on Townhall

• Chicago Teachers Union Prez Attacks Individualism, Free Markets in Education Fri Apr 12
  Kyle Olson
  MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry isn’t the only one cheering for collectivism in education. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis thinks that idea is pretty swell, too. ... more
• Thatcher, Freedom, and Free Markets Mon Apr 8
  Larry Kudlow
  Mrs. Thatcher famously said, “The trouble with socialists is that they always run out of other people’s money.” That dictum really stands the test of time, doesn’t it? Running out of other people’s money? Today? ... more
• Hey La, Hey La, Supply Side's Back: The New A-Team Arrives Wed Jan 9
  Ralph Benko
  Washington, quietly, is re-orientating. To be sure it still is sorting out what caused the financial crisis, the Great Recession, and the disorders that have ensued (from the application of bad medicine like bailouts and stimulus). But there’s just occurred a dramatic changing of the guard in the GOP and in the leadership of its intelligentsia. ... more
• "Forward" to the Past? Wed Dec 19
  Thomas Sowell
  The political slogan "Forward" served Barack Obama well during this year's election campaign. It said that he was for going forward, while Republicans were for "going back to the failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place." ... more
• Tale of Two Presidential Aspirants: Paul Ryan Disses the Gold Standard; Marco Rubio Proposes Good Money Wed Dec 12
  Ralph Benko
  It may have been one of the strangest moments in the history of modern presidential politics. ... more
• In Leadership, Appearances Matter Thu Dec 6
  Jackie Gingrich Cushman
  Last week, I was exiting my neighborhood Starbucks when I happened to overhear a middle-aged man talking to a younger man who appeared to be his son. ... more
• Concerned About Community Welfare, Carbon Emissions? Try Economic Freedom Fri Nov 30
  Antony Davies
  In the two-hundred weekly polls that Rasmussen Reports has conducted over the past four years, 65 percent of Americans have said that the country is moving in the wrong direction. Not once in four years has a majority of Americans said that the country was moving in the right direction. Both parties are responsible for driving us to the edge of the fiscal cliff and Americans are now realizing that neither party knows what to do to fix our problems. ... more
• How the Consumer Became King Thu Nov 29
  Steve Chapman
  Some 200 retailers nationally opened their doors on Thanksgiving Day, and a lot of others did so at midnight. Shoes, jewelry, sporting goods, flat-screen TVs, fancy chocolate -- if you wanted it, you could buy it before the football games were finished. ... more
• FTC Poised to Help Google's Rivals, Not Consumers Tue Nov 27
  Bartlett Cleland
  The Obama administration is well-known for its heavy-handed regulatory overreach, and letting government decide winners and losers instead of the free market. No better example of the Obama administration’s contempt for free enterprise is at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is currently considering how to proceed with its investigation into whether Google uses its position in Internet search to steer users to the company’s preferred services and away from those of its competitors. And while the agency ponders whether to bring a formal complaint against the company, there's a real danger that it may confuse aiding Google's competitors with serving consumers. ... more
• Before We Give Up, Could We At Least Try Selling Our Ideas? Tue Nov 13
  David Limbaugh
  We conservatives may never reach a consensus among ourselves as to the main factors that caused our election defeat, but surely we can agree that we must do a better job of selling our ideas. ... more
• How Free Markets Keep Us Safe Fri Oct 26
  Elisabeth Meinecke
• Greed Wed Oct 24
  John Stossel
  On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations." Give me a break. ... more
• Trickle-Down Government Is All Wet Sat Oct 13
  Brian Darling
  President Obama’s economic ideas hold that government spending on construction, alternative energy sources welfare will inspire long term growth. But this theory has a big problem: Government is a terrible allocator of resources. ... more
• AEI Announces 2012 “Free Enterprise” Video Contest Winners Tue Oct 9
  Daniel Doherty
• Huh: Hospital Stocks Fall in Wake of Romney Debate Success Thu Oct 4
  Kate Hicks
• Romney Can Win By Doing One Thing Tue Oct 2
  Rachel Marsden
  Mitt Romney's biggest problem in this race isn't that he's wealthy -- it's that he lacks the sort of passion that can only be forged by trial and tribulation. It's one thing to articulate the principles of free-market capitalism and limited government as the solution to the country's current woes, but they have little effect when they can't be strapped to an emotional rocket and delivered in surgical strikes straight through voters' hearts. ... more
• Twilight Zone Week Fri Sep 7
  David Limbaugh
  The Democratic National Convention is an elaborate effort to sanitize a failed record that cannot be rehabilitated, even by the glib sophistry of former President Bill Clinton. ... more
• Making Life Fair Wed May 16
  John Stossel
  When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so. ... more
• Death By Fairy Tale: After Occupy, "The 99% Spring" Fizzle Wed May 2
  Ralph Benko
  May 1, International Workers Day, has been designated by the left for the “first General Strike in American History:” A Day Without the 99%. No Work—No School—No Housework–No Shopping. Take the streets on Tuesday! But … the call for the General Strike is not getting traction from us — the 99%. We whose interests it purports to represent and from whom it seeks to draw legitimacy, are decisively spurning the call. ... more
• An Offense Against Free Market Capitalism: The Export-Import Bank Mon Apr 30
  Brian Darling
  A 1932 creation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Export-Import Bank was meant to facilitate trade between the United States and other nations. ... more
• Americans: Free Market Makes America Great, Not Government Mon Apr 23
  Katie Pavlich
• Good Economists Wed Apr 18
  Walter E. Williams
  It's difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to deal with reality. To appear compassionate, often one has to avoid unpleasant questions, use "caring" terminology and view reality as optional. ... more
• The Economy Needs No Conductor Wed Apr 18
  John Stossel
  We spend too much time waiting for orders -- and money -- from Washington. ... more
• Another Day, Another Administration Witch Hunt Wed Apr 18
  David Harsanyi
  This week, President Barack Obama is taking the fight to "oil speculators" and "market manipulation" (nee "free enterprise"), demanding that traders put up more money for transactions and government ratchet up enforcement and monitoring. ... more
• Can Government Do Anything Well? Wed Apr 11
  John Stossel
  I'm suspicious of superstitions, like astrology or the belief that "green jobs will fix the environment and the economy." I understand the appeal of such beliefs. People crave simple answers and want to believe that some higher power determines our fates. ... more

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