economics

P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 3, 2017
Perhaps Mainers passed this one in memory of Independence Day. On June 20, Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed into law LD 725, entitled, “An Act to…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 21, 2017
According to Reason, a man named Steve Tennes, who owns Country Mills Farms located twenty miles outside East Lansing, is suing the government of…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 1, 2017
Remember those black and white mob movies? The ones where the a gangster would walk into a place of business and say something like, “Gee… Nice…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 28, 2017
Following the state Senate and House, Democratic Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper just did an amazing thing: he signed into law a slap in the face…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 17, 2017
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): a venerated hall of higher learning from which some of the greatest achievers of the past century…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 14, 2017
Decades ago, evil scientists working in a dark, dank lair devised one of the most powerful weapons to destroy the prospects for low-skilled people…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 3, 2017
News got out a few days ago that Obamacare is doing more of what it was designed to do: increase costs for patients and insurance companies – even…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 20, 2017
Fish stories abound in politics. Office holders and those who aspire to make their living off wealth redistribution and legal extortion have a…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 11, 2017
Sometimes politicians are so mind-bogglingly elitist, they attempt such breathtakingly courageous feats of hubris that one wonders if they’re…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 28, 2016
In the climax of the classic musical film “The Wizard of Oz,” (spoilers!) Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West, and “liquidates”…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 21, 2016
A rhetorical theme is being struck by a number of public figures in the wake of the Manhattan bombing that seriously injured nineteen people, on…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 20, 2016
Fans of Pokemon--or pretty much anyone who hasn’t been hyper-sleeping for the past decade or two--are very familiar with the comic gangsters, Team…