American Dream

The School Also Has a Pretty Good Basketball Team

10:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

According to Art Carden in Forbes:

Florida Gulf Coast University has an economics department that takes free markets seriously. This isn’t a motley collection of ideologues who are indifferent to the suffering of the poor or who naively believe that free markets create nirvana ... The economists at FGCU take one of the central propositions of economics—people respond to incentives—and push it as far as they can take it.

Right.  And the example is there, on campus, for all to see.  Work hard on fundamentals, including free throw shooting, and you could make millions, marry a Maxim model, and become the head basketball coach who takes some little unknown school at least to the sweet sixteen.  

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Happy Hour: Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll!

7:00 PM, Jun 2, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Kevin Williamson: "Hope Is Not a Policy"

Walter Russell Mead: "The Death of the American Dream I"

Philip Klein: "Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money"

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Obama’s Campaign Against Success

Obama’s Campaign Against Success

What has happened to the American dream?

12:00 AM, Apr 1, 2010 • By GARY ANDRES

Success in America is an endangered species. Business bonuses are under heightened scrutiny; soon, making the right picks in the stock market or earning more than $200,000 per year will mean higher taxes; even the occasional business trips that “happened in Vegas” to reward top sales producers doesn’t “stay in Vegas” anymore. They stay at home. “Junkets” like that fell victim to finger-wagging rebukes from the president himself.  Why blow your money gambling if it can fund another government program?

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