Check out the Latest Freedom to Trade Videos
The Free to Trade Campaign is in full swing, you can check out the latest news on their website FreedomtoTrade.org. The coalition has put together several videos, offering analysis by well known economists discussing the damage protectionist polices can have on an economy. Check out the most recent videos here: The Official Launch of the [...]
Freedom to Trade Petition
Atlas’s Global Initiative and the International Policy Network have teamed up to create a petition in favor of Free Trade, and against protectionism. The official launch of this petition will take place April 1st, just prior to the G-20 meetings in the United Kingdom. Please take a moment to read and join the campagin.
Market Correction has Become a Four Letter Word
With apologies to Thomas Paine, ‘these are the times that try a free marketeer’s souls.’ The global coterie of opinion makers has taken to the airwaves arguing that the market economy has failed, and it’s time to buckle down and turn on the spigots of government largess. But if you listen hard enough, small whispers [...]
A Report on the Financial Crisis- from Norway
Last week Civita in Norway released a 125 page report on the cause of the current financial crisis. While most in Norway, and in fact the world, blame the crisis largely on market failures. Civita takes the opposite view however and outlines how the crisis is in large part an outcome of government’s political decisions. [...]
New Atlas Project on Sound Money
Atlas founder Antony Fisher‘s 1974 book, Must History Repeat Itself?, contained a list of eleven priorities for economic reform. The top two concerned eliminating government meddling in the value of money. During the low-inflation “long boom” of 1983-2000, the topic of Sound Money seemed to lose its salience. But today, we see that the answer [...]
Infuriating
On Tuesday of this week, Kristina Kirchner, President of Argentina, announced that the government will be nationalizing $30 billion in private pension funds. As you can imagine, Atlas´s think tanks in Argentina have been writing and blogging about this economic catastrophe, which not only undermines the rule of law, but also puts Argentine property rights [...]
Beyond Bailouts
A new website, Beyond Bailouts was launched this week. This website brings the work that think tanks across the United States are doing to draw attention to the causes and solutions to the financial crisis under one roof, in an effort to ensure that a free market perspective on these issues is heard and taken [...]
Washington Post Asks If Capitalism Is Dead
And, surprisingly for the Post (which tends to lean left), their answer is “No” in this editorial (10/20/08), published with the subtitle, “The market that failed was not exactly free.” The piece reviews the U.S. government’s massive interventions to encourage home ownership, which distorted a large part of the economy. It’s nice to see the [...]
Friedman on the Financial Crisis
What would the late Milton Friedman have said about the current financial crisis? That’s the question that Peter Robinson discusses in this piece in Forbes magazine with his colleagues, Thomas MaCurdy and Jay Bhattacharya, at the Hoover Institution with which Milton was affiliated during the last three decades of his life. The discussion centers around [...]
Financial Crisis: African Think Tank Defends Free Market
“The financial crisis is a pointer to the fact that one cannot cheat the market- not for long!” exclaims James Shikwati, director of the Inter Region Economic Network in Kenya. In a recent African Executive article, Shikwati makes the case for the free market in the midst of the global financial crisis. He writes, “In [...]
Government Made this Financial Crisis, Let us not Make it Worse
A Joint Statement from the European Free Market Community. On Thursday, October 9th, thank tank members from across Europe joined together in Tbilisi, Georgia at the European Resource Bank Meeting to issue a statement concerning the current global financial crisis, an d the resulting government intervention in financial institutions around the world This statement makes [...]
Latin Perspectives on DC politics
Atlas’s Gabriel Sanchez-Zinny was recently interviewed by Gabrial Salvia of CADAL (a think tank in Argentina). Salvia is the host of a weekly podcast called Apartura Latinoamericana. The program brings together analysts to discuss a variety of topics within the freedom movement. Zinny was asked to comment on the current US Presidential election and the [...]
A New Way to Spur Public Debate
Atlas recently moved our online toolkit to the new Google service, Knol. This service allows you to post articles on any given subject, and others are able to comment on, and edit those articles, much like wikipedia. Other think tanks are using this new tool as well. Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute has launched [...]
Recap: Risk in A Free Society
A week ago, Atlas conducted a successful event in Dallas, Texas. The event, entitled Risk in a Free Society was co-sponsored with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a long time ally of Atlas which was also created by our founder Antony Fisher. Although a variety of discussions emerged throughout the course of the [...]
This Week on Atlas Network TV
With the bailout on most of our minds, Atlas Network TV put a emphasis on videos explaining the situation from a free-market perspective. Reason TV talked to economist Arnold Kling about “The Big Bailout.” Freedomworks issued a call-to-arms with their “Don´t Bail Out Bob Or His Bank!” video. Finally, The Cato Institute released a [...]
Atlas Podcast: Network News with Regional Managers
This week Atlas’s Regional Managers, Colleen Dyble (North America & Africa), Allegra Hewell (Latin America), Ziba Ayeen (Middle East) and Cindy Cerquitella (Europe) share free market news from around the world. This week’s episode discusses the recent events in the Philippines, South Korea, Japan and Texas, The upcoming European and African Resource Bank meetings, an [...]
Fisher on Bail-outs
Atlas’s founder, Sir Antony Fisher, offered his impressions on government bank bail-outs back in 1984, his words feel quite prescient to the situation today: “It is idiocy to re-negotiate loans to governments so they may continue making the same mistakes, or “bail out” banks so their shareholders never discover and correct bad banking procedures. But [...]
McTeer on the U.S. Economy
It’s great that NCPA is hosting blogs like that of Bob McTeer, former president of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Here I’m linking to a recent blog post that is based on comments McTeer gave to a luncheon group at the end of July. It’s interesting to read his insights on today’s economy, and the factors [...]
