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  • Justifying government interference by demonizing, oversimplifying.

    This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina Karras on 08-02-2009
    Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, investors, economic crisis, regulation, government, economics, federal government, action, government intrusion, government expansion

  • SEC Makes Proposals in Stockholder's Interests

    Crack open any financial textbook and you’ll find the objective of every finance department is to “maximize shareholder wealth.” That is their objective, concern, and responsibility. When individual investors buy into a company, they do so under the assumption that management is looking...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Grace Boatright on 07-02-2009
    Filed under: capitalism, free market, business concerns, economics

  • Obama supporters on cap and trade: a huge tax that will decrease GDP

    "I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina Karras on 06-28-2009
    Filed under: energy, cap and trade, capitalism, free market, stimulus package, government spending, taxes, stimulus, job losses, tax issues, economic crisis, regulation, unemployment, green jobs, cap and tax, consumers, economics, environmentalists

  • What We Can Learn From Venezuela

    This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially dangerous ingredients in the soft drink. In reality...
    Posted to AIP Blog by Despina Karras on 06-12-2009
    Filed under: capitalism, free market, business concerns, health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance
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