In July last year Barack Obama called for a doubling of US aid as a centrepiece to his foreign policy. Development assistance can be our best investment in increasing the common security of the entire world, he said. Thats why Ill double our foreign assistance to $50bn by 2012,
A pair of new reports on health care spending reveal that the U.S. can’t afford President Obama’s health care plan, says Sally C. Pipes, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide.”
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The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) has completed a review of a clutch of chapters of the tariff book and has forwarded recommendations for strategic tariff cuts to the trade and industry minister.
The recommendations include a proposal to increase the duties on a number of locally-manufactured goods, but Itac
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group representing more than 1,000 insurance providers, has come out in favour of a law requiring everyone to buy what they sell. This may be the wave of the future: if people don’t want to buy what you sell, get a law passed
Between the extremes of virtually no government and a pure communist state, how much government is necessary and desirable, and when does it become a drag on both liberty and economic well-being, asks Richard W. Rahn, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global
Britain fell deeply into recession in 2008’s final quarter, its economy shrinking 1.5 per cent. That’s a 6 per cent yearly rate of decline, the worst since the second quarter of 1980. An unwelcome whiff of the 1970s is in the air, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
Some have begun comparing
