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Another Sure Winner for President Obama

October 4th, 2011

By Dan Miller In another spectacularly well devised and timed proposal, the Obama Administration is reportedly calling for changes to a federal law prohibiting private debt collectors from making “robo-calls” to cell phones. It would permit such calls only as to debts owed to the federal government. Apparently lots of folks who owe the government […]

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Tags: cell phones, consumers, debt collectors, loans, robocalls
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There Are Two Different Subsets of Economics

June 28th, 2011

By Dan Miller Bryan Preston’s recent article about another “unexpected” fall in consumer confidence caused me to reflect a bit on different branches of economics. An analogy could be drawn to the different branches of medicine: if you fall, can’t walk, your leg hurts and a piece of bone is sticking out, it would be […]

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Tags: consumers, demand, macroeconomics, microeconomics, regulation, supply
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Consumers Should Be “Too Big to Fail”

November 10th, 2010

By Dr. Jim Taylor As distasteful as it was to see the financial, insurance, and automotive industries bailed out for their greedy and reckless behavior, it seems clear that President Bush’s and President Obama’s decisions to do so were correct. Allowing the “too big to fail” companies to fail, however much they deserved to die […]

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Tags: business, consumers, election, infrastructure, jobs, spending, taxes
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