Robert Murphy

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decided to devalue his country's currency and impose price controls. These actions will provide U.S. ...

Just when you thought the wizards in Washington couldn’t distort the economy any more, along comes the “cash-for-clunkers” program. Spending ...

Recently Congress took a break from nationalizing corporations and discussed the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill in which the federal ...

Undeterred by the failure of the last injection of taxpayer dollars into a bloated banking system, our financial crusaders in ...

            On December 11, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved the Scoping Plan for AB 32, aka “The Global ...

It has become fashionable to compare our present economic crisis to the Great Depression, especially by partisan opponents of the ...

Although they are just playing the hand that Alan Greenspan dealt them, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry ...

Last Monday, Nancy Pelosi appeared on Larry King to promote her new book (see transcript).  When the discussion turned to ...

When it comes to vilifying big evil corporations, the accusations made about oil companies never disappoint.  The latest controversy centers ...

With food and energy prices soaring, housing prices collapsing, and the economy sinking into what could be a deep recession, ...

For most Americans, Enron was the poster child of unfettered capitalism.  After its fraudulent activities led to the company’s collapse, ...

When it comes to public hatred of big business, there’s no better target than oil companies. This hatred has ...

Last Tuesday the Fed announced a surprise rate cut of 75 basis points, the biggest cut in 24 years.  Even ...

Like obnoxious relatives, the mortgage mess won’t go away. Some two million adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) will reset over the ...