by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 3, 2017
A positive side effect of President Obama’s duplicity with the anti-Israeli United Nations vote was the attention it brought to what the U.N. is actually doing and how it is wasting taxpayer dollars and undermining liberty. If the U.S. Congress had it to do all over...
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 27, 2016
The good news for 2017 is we can have 4 percent or higher real economic growth per year over the next few years — and here is how. Some of the critics of President-elect Trump have insisted that the approximately two-percent annual average GDP growth the U.S. has...
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 20, 2016
Do you know how many U.S. presidents won election with less than 50 percent of the popular vote? Many are in a dither about Donald Trump having received less than a majority of the popular vote, when in fact almost one-third of all the U.S. presidents (14, to be...
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 13, 2016
Do you want tax reform? Now, for the difficult questions: What is your definition of tax reform? And what will be the consequences of each of your proposals? Nearly all serious tax reform advocates call for a reduction in the corporate income tax rate for several very...
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 6, 2016
How many political enemies would a dictator have to kill before you would no longer want your non-adult children to meet with him? Sean Penn wrote a particularly mindless semi-tribute to Fidel Castro in the Dec. 3 edition of the Daily Beast, where he is far harsher on...