The George W. Bush Presidential Library is ready to open and the former president is giving interviews doubling down on the mantra that

Apr 18, 2013

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Edward Hudgins

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April 2013 -- Atlas Society staff members Ed Hudgins and Alexander R. Cohen have been interviewed by media for their recent articles and Cohen's most recent article was published in several media outlets.

Apr 17, 2013

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April 16, 2013 -- Suppose you and your colleagues want to be paid more. So you make an agreement not to do any more work unless your pay is increased. If you’re unionized laborers, there’s a federal agency that may look after you. But if you’re lawyers with your own offices, taking court appointments to represent poor criminal defendants, there’s a federal agency that may go after you.

Apr 16, 2013

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Unlike last time I went to a Senate antitrust hearing , I heard nothing scandalous at today’s. Nothing, except everything. Is it not scandalous to hear a law antithetical to the moral meaning of free enterprise called the “Magna Carta of free enterprise”? To hear a law created to empower the federal government to violate individual rights compared to the Bill of Rights, which was created to restrain the federal government and protect individual rights? Is it not scandalous to hear legislators celebrate a law that coercively controls the terms of voluntary trades to favor a certain side? Even if that side is that of "the consumer"?

Apr 16, 2013

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Bill Baer, the head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, is forcing Budweiser’s corporate owner AB InBev to give up a big...

Apr 15, 2013

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Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This six-session

Apr 11, 2013

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Regulators have restricted so much finance-related speech that people in the industry now have to lobby for the freedom to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn like the rest of us. Or almost like the rest of us.

Apr 11, 2013

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If you think antitrust is about fair competition, take a look at this : Delta and Virgin Atlantic are asking the U.S. Department of

Apr 10, 2013

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A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend

Apr 9, 2013

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Edward Hudgins

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James J. Treacy may have helped you find a job, but years after he left Monster.com , he was sent to prison over paperwork there...

Apr 8, 2013

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April 8. 2013 -- Ed Hudgins will be a guest on WAGG 610 radio, a gospel station in Birmingham, Alabama, today at 3:00 PM Eastern.

Apr 8, 2013

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Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand , “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.” This .....

Apr 6, 2013

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Summer 2010 -- “’Value’ is that which one acts to gain and keep,” wrote Ayn Rand, “’virtue’ is the action by which one gains and keeps it.”

Apr 6, 2013

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When businessmen get involved in policy advocacy, they can help promote the freedom to do business. Yet the impression, fostered by some libertarian intellectuals, that business lobbying tends only to produce special favors for politically connected businesses, can discourage honorable businessmen from participating in the fight for their own freedom. So argues Fred L.

Apr 5, 2013

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Former Arkansas governor and presidential contender Mike Huckabee threatens that if Republicans embrace same-sex marriage and ignore the....

Apr 4, 2013

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Edward Hudgins

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RECORDED WEBINAR Economic Power vs. Political Power Monday, April 15, 2013 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Eastern The politics of the United States for over a century have been dominated by the idea that the power of government was required to restrain and manage the power of businesspeople in the economy.

Apr 3, 2013

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William Thomas

Last summer, I noted that a federal judge had allowed a case against Netflix for not captioning all its movies to proceed. Now the Wall...

Mar 27, 2013

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Monster Energy is getting out of the dietary supplement business. But its customers shouldn’t panic: It’s going into the beverage business—with the same products. The change, you see, has nothing to do with what Monster makes or its customers buy. It’s simply a question of regulatory classification. Monster thinks its energy drinks can qualify as either supplements or beverages, and it’s switching in order to change its regulatory burdens. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois is trying to increase the regulatory burdens on dietary supplements.

Mar 26, 2013

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have energy for every modern convenience, and to encourage us rededicate ourselves to unleashing even more of it....

Mar 22, 2013

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Edward Hudgins

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Scott Zaremba has been trying to use gasoline as one ingredient in an ethanol product that competes with gasoline. Ethanol lobbyists say....

Mar 21, 2013

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