A Panel with William Dunkelberg and Thomas Patrick Burke William Dunkelberg’s Notes on the Economy Excerpt “An uptick in…lending could help businesses expand and reduce employment,” says the report, reflecting the view that it is credit supply that is the problem. The banks mentioned in the article are all of the “biggies” …(Read More)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created the crime of “discrimination.” But it failed to make a vital distinction. From the point of view of moral principle, there is a difference of the most fundamental kind between actions that are coercive, that is, use physical force or the threat of …(Read More)
James Madison is best known for his leading role at the Constitutional Convention, his contributions to The Federalist Papers, and his two terms as the fourth President of the United States. While he is not as well known for the “Notes on Government” and Party Press Essays that he penned …(Read More)
Leonard Swidler has been for forty years the Christian world’s leading exponent of interreligious dialogue, including dialogue with Islam. In June this year he accepted an official invitation to make a week-long visit to Imam University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to exchange views with its faculty. This was an unprecedented …(Read More)
Unlike traditional European conservative movements, the American Right, which evolved into a something of a movement after World War Two, was forced to create its own conservative tradition. The constitutional tradition out of which the US developed was essentially classical liberal. What is more, the world to which critics of …(Read More)
The Battle over Federal Supremacy and State Rights A seminar with William Adair Bonner, Esq. Does a state law addressing the presence of a person who already illegally entered the United States sufficiently interfere with federal immigration laws so as to be entirely preempted under the U. S. Constitution’s Supremacy …(Read More)
The First Amendment hallows the rights of freedom of speech, the press, assembly and petition. But the first of these rights, and the one out of which these others historically sprang, is freedom of religion. Freedom of religion establishes the foundation of the free society. Where it is present, the …(Read More)
The U.S. economy officially “peaked” in December of 2007. 18 months later, the economy was still shrinking. Although it appears that the bottom was reached mid-summer and third quarter growth will be positive, the recession was the worst since the Depression and the road to recovery is strewn with weak …(Read More)
Austrian School economist Patrick Barron will question much of what you are told is the cause of our current financial crisis. He will argue that the actions government is taking to end it and prevent it from happening in the future cannot succeed but, on the contrary, are deepening the …(Read More)
Is current monetary policy inflationary? This seems a reasonable expectation in light of the fact that the Federal Government and Federal Reserve are injecting all together about $4 trillion of paper money into the economy. Nevertheless many economists believe that the ultimate result may be deflation because of the destruction …(Read More)