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Regulation and Taxation

A Banker Takes a Mulligan

Thomas Depping makes money by helping others make money: He’s in the business of lending to small businesses. From dentists to truck drivers

Aug 15, 2011
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3 Mins
A Specter of Small Government?

May 1, 2009—Republicans can both boo and cheer Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party. It’s a heavy blow for them to lose their

Jun 8, 2011
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3 Mins
An Analysis of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. A

May 6, 2011
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8 Mins
Ragnar Shrugged

Norway recently lost its wealthiest citizen. No, he didn't die. Rather, he left or, to be more accurate, was driven out of the country for..

Apr 5, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual

April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in

Mar 29, 2011
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Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
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Bobos, Liberaltarians, and Hippies of the Right

“Pretty soon [the young intellectual] will announce that it is time to reject the false choices of both left and right. We must all move

Mar 18, 2011
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10 Mins
Yes, the Dumb Buggers Stepped on the Gas

Such were the wise words of P. J. O’Rourke the last time drivers tried to blame their car accidents on “sudden unintended acceleration....

Feb 9, 2011
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1 Min
Ban Government Racism, Not Discrimination

February 28, 2003 -- A state university uses racial criteria in choosing candidates for admission. It has been doing this for years, as have

Feb 2, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
7 Mins
Washington Legal Foundation Files Amicus Brief in Rubashkin Case

When the ACLU gets involved in a case, even a business rights case, I tend not to notice, because of that organization’s infamous

Jan 28, 2011
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2 Mins
Information Disclosure under Laissez-Faire

Under laissez-faire capitalism, I doubt that there would be any blanket legal duty to reveal information that would harm one’s business....

Jan 26, 2011
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3 Mins
Danielle Chiesi: Immoral Victim

I have not been blogging for the last month in order to devote my full time to an historically important violation of Business Rights. Now..

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Free State Project

The Atlas Society does not at this time have an official position on the Free State Project. However, I think it is safe to say that the

Jan 25, 2011
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2 Mins
Taking the Tea Party at Face Value

Some of the signature values that animated a previous generation—independence, prudence, and self-discipline—seem to be in short supply.....

Dec 28, 2010
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Bradley Doucet
10 Mins
How Preet Bharara Is Changing the Nature of Insider Trading

In my editorial “ Consider the Source ,” I speculated that Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, was

Dec 15, 2010
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3 Mins
Check Your Premises

“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...

Nov 28, 2010
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3 Mins
Andy McCarthy on the Insider-Trading Case

Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks

Nov 25, 2010
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2 Mins
Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts

The first great post-election policy decision facing the lame-duck, Democrat-dominated Congress is whether or not to allow taxes to

Nov 23, 2010
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists

February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country

Oct 21, 2010
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Patrick Stephens
5 Mins
The Wealth and Social Health of America

June 2001 -- [BOOK REVIEW] It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years. By Stephen Moore and Julian Simon

Oct 19, 2010
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Herbert Grubel
10 Mins
Auto-mobility and Freedom

A century and a half ago, the legal scholar Sir Henry Maine observed that the evolution of human society was a movement from a society of...

Oct 18, 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 Mins

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