By Kevin Mooney — Without additional transparency and tighter enforcement of proxy-voting requirements, publicly-held companies could be pressured into accommodating political agendas that are detached from the economic interests of retirement funds, according to a U.S. Department of Labor Inspector General audit released in March. Since average Americans are reliant upon retirement plans that invest in corporate stock, they are [...]

By Kevin Mooney – After expressing skepticism toward the concept of man-made global warming at a town hall meeting in Toms River, N.J. last year, Gov. Chris Christie appears to have shifted over into the alarmist camp. This has become a sore-point for free-market conservatives who have held out hope Gov. Christie may yet emerge as a GOP savior in [...]

By Adam Bitely – Friedrich August von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes have been the central part of a near century long battle over the role that government should play in the economy. Time and again, the ideas and theories of Keynes and Hayek have been used to argue for and against the involvement that government has in the fiscal [...]

By Kevin Mooney – When the history of the Obama Administration is written, astute observers are likely to note that one of the great unintended consequences has been a revival of federalism. This is true not just in a theoretical sense, but in terms of states actua lly reasserting their authority in the realm of public policy. Throughout the country, [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Just prior to the one year anniversary of the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has announced that he will introduce the Agency Moratorium Act. The legislation would require congressional approval for expansion of federal regulations restricting energy exploration on federal lands and the Outer Continental Shelf that could provide domestic natural resources [...]

By Kevin Mooney — As a way to attack America from within, Osama bin Laden very shrewdly seized upon the cause of climate change to advance his agenda. In a videotape message that was broadcast back in January 2010, the terrorist leader criticized the U.S. for resisting the Kyoto Protocol of 1997. He also had words of praise for Noam [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Thanks to the ingenuity and vision of key activists who are going local rather than fixating on Washington, D.C., the Tea Party is in position to challenge the power and influence of state level green groups. For decades, well-funded environmental activists have operated at expense of industrial development and private landowners without any meaningful response. But [...]

By Adam Bitely – Contrary to Robert Samuelson’s claim that TARP has been a success story, it has been anything but. Writing in the Washington Post, Samuelson claims that “[w]hen the entire financial system succumbs to panic, only the government is powerful enough to prevent a complete collapse.” Clearly, Samuelson has never taken an economics course. First, when the financial [...]

The Federal Reserve has existed for almost 100 years and it has created depressions, recessions, inflation, and bubbles. This Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation video explains the origin of central banking and mentions possible alternatives that will be discussed in subsequent mini-documentaries.

By Kevin Mooney — While the nation was still mired in a deep recession, self-described community activists staged elaborate protests against President Reagan’s policies in the early 1980s a Nexis search reveals. On the anniversary of his 100th birthday, Reagan is widely credited and praised for re-energizing the economy and reversing the “malaise” of the 1970s. But just before the [...]