By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  June 29th at 12:52 PM  | 

This column is cross-posted from Voice for Liberty in Wichita. Economic freedom, in countries where it is allowed to thrive, leads to better lives for people as measured in a variety of ways. This is true for everyone, especially for poor people. This is the message presented in a short video based on the work of the Economic Freedom of the World report, which is | Read More »

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  June 28th at 10:21 AM  | 

This column is cross-posted from Voice for Liberty in Wichita. Last week the American Legislative Exchange Council released the fourth edition of Rich States, Poor States: The ALEC-Laffer Economic Competitiveness Index. This is an important study by authors Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams that identifies states that use “best practices to enable states to drive economic growth, create jobs, and improve the | Read More »

By: Bob Weeks (Diary)  |  June 27th at 01:57 PM  | 

This column is cross-posted from Voice for Liberty in Wichita. Are the free market critics of Social Security a shadowy “echo chamber” seeking to end the system for the benefit of the rich, or sounding a fact-based alarm that government and its supporters dispute and don’t want you to hear? According to a short video by Robert Greenwald, it’s the first choice. But examination of | Read More »