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This Tuesday, President Obama will make economic inequality central to his State of the Union, building on his 2013 description of economic mobility as “the defining challenge of our time … a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe.” Our nation was uniquely founded […]
Renewing Our Commitment to Economic Opportunity Read More »
International House is an example of American philanthropy at its best. It provides an important service that the free market cannot provide as inexpensively and that government cannot or will not. And it provides that service competently and imaginatively for over 700 scholars from 100 countries who could not find it elsewhere. Many Americans feel
Philanthropy vs Charity: America’s “Third Sector” Read More »
| By Daniel Rose | Maurice Chevalier, the celebrated French entertainer, was asked on his 75th birthday his thoughts on reaching that advanced age. He replied, “I think it’s great, considering the alternative.” Capitalism, too—the most productive economic system known—is preferable to the alternatives. And unlike death, its excesses can be mitigated. Ever since Adam
Capitalism Today: Triumphs & Challenges By Daniel Rose Read More »
By Milosh Marinovich It is the beginning of the end of our world as we know it. Doom is the operative ethic. Or so our government would have us believe. By now we’ve all been privy to the ominous debt-ceiling and government shutdown debate, which ended on Wednesday night with a bipartisan agreement that will
Debt-Ceiling and Government Shutdown Conceal Larger Truths Read More »
An Op-Ed by Milosh Marinovich On a recent family vacation, I spent a night discussing the rapid economic growth of sub-Saharan Africa with my wife’s uncle. A lawyer by trade, my Kenyan-born uncle-in-law said he’d seen a shift in the investment landscape of not only his home country, but of Africa as a whole. In
AFRICA’S RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD Read More »