Articles by Martin Fridson
New York's Bizarre Housing Tax
The trail led to the Badlands. His name is Bill Golodner, private investigator. Along with partner Bruce Frankel he hunts down absentee tenants of rent-regulated New York City apartments. Golodner's subject was clearing a cool $1,500-plus every month by...
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How Seattle Slew the Raid on Its Treasury
November's elections brought a small, but encouraging bit of news for disbelievers of the proposition that government exists to advantage the already advantaged. Voters in Seattle overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure ending taxpayer subsidies for professional
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Milton Friedman's Gentle Persuasion
My direct contact with Milton Friedman was limited to an email exchange only a few months before his death. I had sent him a copy of my book, Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace, as...
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The Permanent War on Payola
It lies within the government's power to outlaw a market, but not ordinarily to abolish it. At most, the authorities can drive the nexus underground. The resource-allocation need that gave rise to the market will survive. Associated transactions will assume...
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No, We Don't Need a Manhattan Project for Energy
"We need an all-out effort, a Manhattan Project, a man to the moon, to become less dependent on fossil fuel and the Middle East." So said Representative Chris Shays (R., CT) following a trip that included stops in Iraq, Jordan,...
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Rain on the Economic Forecasters' Parade
Investors are keenly interested in the pronouncements of economic forecasters, judging by the massive amounts of ink and airtime allotted to them by the media. It doesn't necessarily follow, however, that heeding the prognosticators is useful in selecting securitie
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