Tag: Free Market

The libertarian Cato Institute is "ultraconservative," in the telling of the New York Times. And somehow, Cato (motto "Individual liberty, free markets, and peace") is "strikingly different" from an advocate for "freedom" and "a free and open market economy." (AP Photo)

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Are libertarians ‘ultraconservative’? Are ‘free markets’ ‘liberal’?

Timothy P. Carney · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

Americans from fishermen to insurance agents are getting tired of being victimized by overregulation, according to a report by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council. (Thinkstock)

Watchdogging Obama’s regulatory state

Ron Arnold · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

FreedomWorks is launching a campaign against the insurance bailout created by Obamacare's "risk corridor" provisions. In addition to pressuring lawmakers, FreedomWorks is pressuring CEOs against lobbying for a bailout, or accepting a bailout.

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FreedomWorks calls on Aetna to reject Obamacare bailout

Timothy P. Carney · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Valero buys crude oil in the U.S., refines it into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and propane. (AP Photo)

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Regulations mean profits for refiners like Valero — but uneasy profits

Timothy P. Carney · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

With oil pump jacks as a backdrop, President Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M., in March 2012. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Big Oil takes on Big Oil over crude exports

Timothy P. Carney · January 11, 2014 5:00 am

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Equality versus liberty: Americans should be grateful for income inequality

John Stossel · January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, speaks with ESPN Executive Vice President of Administration Ed Durso after a ground-breaking for a new building on the ESPN campus in Bristol, Conn. on Aug. 2, 2011. ESPN receives hundreds of millions of dollars in state incentives from Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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ESPN and Connecticut shake each other down

Joel Gehrke · December 30, 2013 5:00 am

In an editorial titled, "The Affordable Care Act's free market economics," the Washington Post has attempted to defend President Obama's health care law from Republican attacks that the law will make it difficult for some Americans to keep their doctors. But in the process of doing so, the editorial board failed to draw an important distinction between economics and free market economics. (AP Photo)

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Washington Post misses distinction between economics and free market economics

Philip Klein · December 27, 2013 5:00 am

It was not by accident that President Obama chose a theater in a poor black neighborhood in Washington, where the average income is barely half the national average, to speak this week about economic opportunity and fairness. (AP Photo)

Obama promotes despair to those who need economic freedom

Star Parker · December 7, 2013 5:00 am

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Uproar over cancelled plans also poses obstacle for free market health reformers

Philip Klein · November 1, 2013 4:00 am

Even if administration officials can fix Obamacare's technical problems, they may have a hard time convincing young and healthy Americans to purchase insurance due to prohibitive costs. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Obamacare could be converted to free-market system

Shikha Dalmia · September 27, 2013 12:00 am

Cover: The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution

Why faith and free markets need each other

Star Parker · September 7, 2013 4:00 am