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The Cheap Populism of Bashing CEO Pay

“The time needed to accumulate skills and experience is considerable and few people want to have the downsides of being a CEO. Demand for such skill is increasing faster than supply, which results in growing CEO pay. It’s basic economics.” ~Vincent Geloso

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Are CEOs overpaid?

“Behavioral economics contributes the insight that different kinds of compensation incentivize, reward, and support different kinds of behavior, so a range of justifications for executive compensation may come into play and need to be considered by directors and the compensation committee.” ~Robert Mulligan

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Subsidies: Cui Bono?   

“When a tax is imposed, everyone potentially in its crosshairs, from buyers to sellers to workers and other suppliers of inputs to firms, wishes to avoid the burdens. They thus have incentives to dodge them by changing their choices.” ~Gary Galles

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You Can’t Find Your Innocence By Hating Others

“The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes.” ~Barry Brownstein

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$34 Trillion and Climbing

“The US government will never, ever, voluntarily cut spending. For our self-preservation, American citizens will need to find a means of arresting the Beltway’s profligate instinct.” ~Peter C. Earle

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Land of the Free – An Update

“We live in an era dominated by the doctrine of prior restraint, the notion that all actions (individual or corporate) should be forestalled until approved by an appropriate authority. It is an ugly inversion of a bedrock principle of a free society.’ ~Paul Schwennesen

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Capitalism Is Impersonal, Not Soulless

“Because in today’s global economy the people with whom we interact economically number literally in the billions, the percentage of these persons with whom we also interact personally is near zero.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux

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