By Robert Dell
Millions of Americans who recently endured needless hours of toil and stress completing tax returns want fundamental tax reform and relief from the oppression of the current tax code, which includes a $400 billion annual compliance burden and which even progressive economists concede is a national disgrace....
5 Comments | Posted August 1, 2011 | 9:30 PM
Originally published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on July 29, 2011.
By Robert Dell
What the AJC's recent investigation into the failure of 65 Georgia banks showed is that both bank executives and their regulators lacked incentives for maintaining equity capital commensurate with the risk of...
65 Comments | Posted February 28, 2011 | 12:18 PM
History's two most influential advocates for economic liberty, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, nevertheless turned away from "free banking" to support some financial regulation and legislative reform in the wake of financial crises. Smith's views were influenced by the global banking crisis of 1772 and the failure of the Ayr...
23 Comments | Posted January 18, 2011 | 3:13 PM
Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself. We see how silly the Ronald Reagan slogan was that government is the problem, not the solution . . . I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his...
95 Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 10:52 AM