The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it
Unfortunately, professor Anne Wortham is not able to come and speak on "Sociology in The Fountainhead," as she had planned. We wish Anne
Matthew Kluger yesterday received the longest sentence yet for insider trading: twelve years . That's a year longer than Raj Rajaratnam's,..
Over the past decade New York State has lost 3.4 million residents, with incomes totaling $119 billion, according to the Tax Foundation
Secondhand specialty shops in Washington, D.C., had some unwelcome visitors last month: bureaucrats and police telling them they needed..
If you can blame property for crimes, you can seize the property of innocent people. That's called "forfeiture," and government uses it
The European Commission has identified four antitrust "concerns" with Google's offerings and is demanding "voluntary" remedies if Google....
Business creators and investors are increasingly choosing not to take their companies public, says the Economist, and one reason is...
California Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his state’s budget deficit will be $16 billion, up from earlier estimates of $9.2 billion, on a
Under ObamaCare, health insurers must in some cases send rebates to insured individuals. Under new regulations, the Wall Street Journal....
President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage is likely to mean that in a decade or two this will no longer be a major
French voters guillotined the reelection hopes of center-right President Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Socialist François Hollande, putting...
Saluting the philosopher who gave reason its foundational tool, Ayn Rand named the three sections of Atlas Shrugged after Aristotle’s axioms
On May 2, 2012, I appeared on “The Big Picture,” a TV show hosted by Thom Hartmann, to discuss the recent controversy surrounding Rep...
Newt Gingrich is an American tragedy, a capacity and a potential wasted. The failed candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nominatio
Last Thursday and Friday a flurry of news stories appeared addressing—again—the link between Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand’s ideas.
On April 17, President Barrack Obama addressed Americans about rising prices of gasoline, now above $5.00 a gallon in parts of the country..
I recently debated Gary Weiss, the author of the new book Ayn Rand Nation , at the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Weiss invited
On Tax Day 2012 we’re greeted with the news that some 1,800 Americans, a record number, last year renounced their citizenship or turned in
Productive individuals find themselves more and more under assault by governments seeking to expropriate their wealth. This is the logical
