Month: February 2005

Is equity investment of Social Security funds in private/personal accounts "risky"? Or will it save the system? What should true conservatives be in favor of? Many of the arguments on both sides are based on wrong assumptions or form specious conclusions.The first question, on equity investments: Would long-term, well-diversified equity investments provide higher returns than…

Should true conservatives be worried about conservation? Is the concern about consuming and contaminating our natural resources a bunch of ill-informed liberal vaporing, unsupported by fact? My ex-business partner–a Republican who votes Democratic on occasion–has taken me to task on this point (not for the first time). He points to Bjorn Lumborg’s book, The Skeptical…