Watch Milton Friedman’s “Free To Choose” PBS Series for Free
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The legendary PBS TV series “Free to Choose” (1980) by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman is now available on Google Video for free (by courtesy of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund).

Personalizing the Debt Shows it is Unsustainable
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Our country’s debt and deficit is difficult to understand in the abstract. Translating it to the numbers on each taxpayer’s credit card can help us see how our country’s spendthrift ways have debilitated economic productivity.

Federal Revenue and Spending as Percentage of GDP
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Federal revenue has been relatively constant while federal spending has grown out of control.

Hitting the Debt Ceiling is Not the End of the World
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The Obama administration has been claiming that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be the end of the world. We are all tired of failed apocalyptic predictions. Perhaps all that will end is politics as usual.

Debt Talks Target Cost Of Living – Social Security Falls Further Behind
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To solve the deficit reduction riddle, Obama reportedly is embracing an idea that purports to raise tax revenue without a tax hike and claims to cut Social Security outlays without cutting benefits. Better check your wallet.

Radio: California vs. Amazon Battle
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On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 from noon-1pm, David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Rob Schilling Show. The topic was the battle between Amazon.com and the state of California over taxation.

Obama’s Gasoline Change Doesn’t Change Basic Economics
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Last month the Obama administration announced it would release 30 million barrels of oil, the largest ever, from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Only those without an understanding of basic economics would applaud such a move.

Cost of Living is Beginning to Rise
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Understanding how Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) works uncovers some of the complex cause and effect between Social Security adjustments and the real cost of living with higher gasoline prices.

An Obamanomics Lesson For Everyone
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If the American family hopes to emerge from this debt crisis, the American people must recover the productive zeal that fueled our country’s growth in the past.

Government Regulations Don’t Make You Safer
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The United States has three sectors of the economy suffering under regulatory red tape: financial services, energy and now health care. I’m certain the financial services regulations have caused more harm than good.

Minimum Wage Hurts Starter Jobs
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Some first-time workers are not worth minimum wage. But without being hired, they can’t learn job-related skills.

Radio: Minimum Wage
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David Marotta and David Swanson discuss a minimum wage.

Radio: Liberals Get Basic Economics Wrong
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David Marota discusses how liberals get basic economics wrong.

Liberals Get Basic Economics Wrong
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The authors of the Zogby study suggested their own explanation. “We think that, for many respondents, economic understanding takes a vacation when economic enlightenment conflicts with establishment political sensibilities.”

Rising Capital Gains Tax Hurts Everyone
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Politicians are giving us no incentive to take care of ourselves. They are ensuring that government will need to save us.

Gold May Drop If Political Winds Change
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Perhaps dire predictions are correct and we are headed to Armageddon. If you want liquid assets in such a catastrophic situation, try buying cases of Jack Daniels. It is cheaper, keeps just as well and will fetch more in trading value.

Dodd-Frank Bill Concentrates Financial Power
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Only if you swear by the genius of Caesar, trust in his altruism and believe in his divinity is this bill a cause for celebration.

Radio: Financial Reform & the Dodd-Frank Bill
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David Marotta & George Marotta discuss financial reform, specifically the Dodd-Frank bill and its implications on the economy.

The Summer Of Our Employment Discontent
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Government assistance has taken what might have been a simple recession and turned it into a more lingering malaise.

Avoid the “Ring-of-Fire” Countries
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A few months ago Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO and the country’s most prominent bond expert, singled out those countries heaping significant deficits on their mountain of debt and called them “The Ring of Fire.” We recommend that you reduce your investments in these countries.

The Fragility Of Freedom At 60%
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In just three short years we’ve added more to the deficit as a percentage of GDP than in the three decades before.

The Fragility of Freedom at 60%
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In 1977 economist Milton Friedman wrote an article “The Line We Dare Not Cross: The Fragility of Freedom at ‘60%.'” We are in danger of crossing that line.

Radio: Taxation and Inflation
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David Marotta discusses how to shield your personal assets from the corrosive influence of government policies.

ObamaCare Is the Worst Legislation in 75 Years
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Everyone in our risk pool will order filet mignon. First the costs will skyrocket. And then the meat will be rotten.

Radio: George Marotta’s Experiences And Career
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George Marotta is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution pursuing research on international finance.

America, Land Of The Mostly Free
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America is officially no longer free.

The TANSTAAFL Principle
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“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” As early as 1938, this phrase was touted as “economics in nine words.”

Going John Galt
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If you’re not an economist, you may vastly underestimate the negative impact of taxes on the U.S. economy.

Radio: Going John Galt
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David Marotta discusses how the tax burden causes an incentive to earn less money.

Radio: A Better Plan For Healthcare
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Public policy to increase choices for healthcare coverage.

The Case Against Centralized Health Care
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You may have to jail a few rebels for health insurance evasion.

A Compromise to Achieve Universal Coverage
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We need a safety net, not a hammock.

More Profitable Health Care Is the Solution
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Some doctors start the year $250,000 in debt.

Avoiding a Civil War over Health Care
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Half of the country are political Vikings who pay their taxes by raiding and pillaging the productive.

Cash For Clunkers: The Economy And The Environment Suffer
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A country can’t prosper destroying perfectly good used cars.

Radio: Cash For Clunkers
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David Marotta discusses the politics of “Cash for Clunkers.”

American Mercantilism Descends Into Fascism
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The government is not intervening out of a sense of altruism.

Radio: Congressional Earmarks
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David Marotta discusses the politics of congressional earmarks.

Government-Provided Economic Security Is an Illusion
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The various congressional bailouts have been touted as essential to the nation’s economic security. So long as the notion of economic security remains vague and abstract, it has wide support. But anyone who examines the details should realize this so-called security threatens our freedom and stability.

The Assault on Free Markets
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Free markets are under assault in America. We have seen much hyperbole and slander in these past two years of political polarization. But the idea of capitalism and free markets has received more negative campaigning and vicious attack than both candidates combined.

Part 2: Privatization Could Fix Social Security
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Privatization eliminates benefits for those who can do better with 5% of their payroll taxes than the government does with the entire 12.4%.

Part 1: Social Security Is Still Broken
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All this toil to maintain an average benefit of about $12,000 a year!

Radio: The Impending Social Security Disaster
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David Marotta discusses how Social Security could offer more benefit for less cost.

Our Financial Crisis: The Result of Centralized Planning
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Regulation and centralized planning have caused financial instability and failing institutions. If this is the root cause, then many of the proposed solutions will only make matters worse.

Radio: The Most Important Economic Political Issues
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David Marotta discusses how politics affect us.

Inflation Part 3: Protecting Yourself Against Inflation
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You can hedge your assets against underreported inflation and protect your retirement goals.

Inflation Part 2: The Results of Underreporting Inflation
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Inflation at this rate causes serious harm to our nation’s economy and its citizens.

Inflation Part 1: How the Government Lies About Inflation
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Officially, inflation today is calculated about 4%. Unofficially, it is over 7%.

Tax Rebates Are a Losing Proposition Part 1
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Tax rebate stimulus checks are a cheap and inefficient gimmick.

Subprime Lending
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The subprime mortgage meltdown has cost the world 15% of its market capitalization, about $9 trillion. The primary culprit who caused all of this financial loss, pain and suffering is not the mortgage companies.

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