Originally aired on 10/26/09 on FoxNews.com’s “Freedom Watch.” Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, examines why government spending can’t pull the U.S. out of economic recession.
Originally aired on 10/2/09. Ivan Eland discusses Peter Galbraith’s accusation of fraud benefiting incumbent Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, in an interview on Russia Today.
Alex Tabarrok at TED argues how free trade and globalization are shaping the world into an idea-sharing community that is more healthy, happy and prosperous than anyone's predictions.
At this Policy Forum, Independent Institute Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa, former Bolivian President Jorge Quiroga, economist William Easterly, and a group of policy experts discuss the findings of the book, Lessons from the Poor. The speakers examine real-world examples of entrepreneurship and why instead of redistributing existing wealth, governments should free people so that they can create it.
