Category: Economics
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Please feel free to ignore Lou Dobbs
Television personality Lou Dobbs promotes an economic fallacy: that destruction holds the seeds of economic progress.
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Speculators selfishly provide a public service
Speculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.
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Brinkmanship with jobs
Welcome to the new world of economic development — playing brinkmanship with job, writes Wichita state University’s H. Edward Flentje.
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Tax increment financing: TIF has a cost
Supporters of tax increment financing, or TIF, claim that it has no costs. This is true only if one ignores their secondary effects and economic reality.
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Wind power again reaps subsidy
Despite poor economics, wind power again reaps taxpayer subsidy.
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Wind power: a wise investment for Wichita and Kansas?
The economics of wind power should cause us to question the wisdom of Kansas and Wichita pursuing it as an economic development strategy.
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Growth of Wichita’s Koch Industries profiled
Wichita-based Koch Industries has grown during the recent recession by looking for companies with long-term value that will fit in with Koch’s company culture.
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Timothy Sandefur: The right to earn a living
Last Friday’s meeting (December 10) of the Wichita Pachyderm Club featured noted Cato Institute scholar, Principal Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, and author Timothy Sandefur. He discussed his recent book The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law. A description of the book at Amazon.com reads: “America’s founders thought the right…
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‘The Power of the Poor’ to be shown in Wichita
On Monday October 11, the video “The Power of the Poor” will be shown in Wichita, with discussion following.
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We can balance the budget without new taxes
Politicians and interest groups claim higher taxes are necessary because it would be impossible to cut spending by enough to get rid of red ink. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video shows that these assertions are nonsense. The budget can be balanced very quickly by simply limiting the annual growth of federal spending.