by Henry Oliner | May 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the Wall Street Journal from Phil Gramm and Amity Shlaes.The ‘Gilded Age’ Myth, Then and Now: Excerpt: Between 1870 and 1900, America’s inflation-adjusted gross national product expanded by an unprecedented 233%. Though the population nearly doubled, real per...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 22, 2020 | Politics, Progressivism
Political conditions today look similar to the dawn of progressivism. The original Progressive Era (1900-1920) addressed the concentration of economic power which threatened to influence the exercise of political power. The disparity in wealth on conspicuous display...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2017 | Health Care
from my article in American Thinker a few weeks ago, The fatal attraction of single-payer Reform is seductive. It is like the curvy woman with the soft voice you met at the bar. The next thing you know, you have a boiled bunny in your kitchen. The faults of the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 2, 2016 | Business
from The Great Regression in The National Review by Victor Davis Hanson As a result of liberal hyper-wealth, the new trusts are given veritable media and political passes on their embrace of practices once seen as illiberal and self-serving, like excessive electronic...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 17, 2016 | Business, Politics, Progressivism
from The Great Regression in The National Review by Victor Davis Hanson At the turn of the last century, “trust busters” of the progressive movement made the argument that the free market was imperiled by crony capitalists, who had, with government collusion,...
