Critics of the U.S. Postal Service complain about ongoing financial costs (“The Post Office Lost $2 Billion In Just 3 Months“), mediocre service, and pension liabilities: At the end of fiscal year 2013, USPS...
Debate topics change from year to year, but economic principles stay the same. Political economy looks at the intersection of politics and economics, and every debate resolution has such an intersection. Established companies and...
With “system” in the title, this September 8, 2015 Atlas Network article on reforming the federal courts is valuable for this year’s NCFCA policy debate: “RANDY BARNETT AIMS TO RESTORE JUDICIAL SYSTEM TO CONSTITUTIONAL...
Students researching the NCFCA federal court system topic can look to reform the New Deal deference federal courts give to federal and state regulations. New theories of economics became popular in the early 1930s,...
Early Economic Thinking Workshop on NCFCA federal court system reform topic. Thursday, August 27 in Mt. Pleasant (near Racine), Wisconsin. • Economics, Justice, and Federal Court System Reform
Flyers for September 25 and 26 Economic Thinking Workshops in Huntsville, Alabama. Stoa Policy workshop on Asia trade policy: • Economic Freedom & Trade Policy with China, Japan, SK, & Taiwan (pdf) (click image at...
[I wrote the text below on July 6 but somehow didn’t finish. Now the China’s stock market falling, the notes below and links may provide helpful background. Also valuable background for current financial and...
In “Who’s Regulating the Regulators?: Federal agencies like the EPA shouldn’t be able to issue expensive new rules without external checks and balances,” (July 6, 2015), the Mercatus Center’s Jerry Ellig concludes: The issue...
Around the world, private companies have been improving management of port facilities, investing billions to expand and improve operations. The collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe reveal stunning mismanagement of state...
NSDA has a criminal justice topic for 2020-21. This post was originally for an earlier NCFCA federal court system reform topic, on cases involving federal courts and criminal justice reform. I’ve argued in previous...
