Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
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...
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its trade policy with one or more of the following nations: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade topic will regularly...
In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life offers a series of problems to be solved. Each day we...
A Wall Street Journal headline writer likely sensed something amiss with the latest calls by U.S. steel producers for more protectionism. The August 12, 2015 WSJ print edition article by John W. Miller was titled: “Steelmakers...