Forty Year War on Drugs Incites New Orleanians to Protest

By Fergus Hodgson

06/20/2011

With festive music and diverse protestors, Women with a Vision led a peaceful march against what the organization describes as a trillion dollar “abject failure”—the now forty-year-old war on drugs.

TAGS: Drug War, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, Loyola Economics Club, Walter Block, Women With a Vision

Consumer Protection Can Lead to Moral Hazard

By Jennifer Moreale

03/14/2010

Barack Obama proclaimed March 7th-March 13th to be the National Consumer Protection Week. Supporting the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Obama said: “[…] our Government must do more to stand up for consumers. From excessive bank account overdraft fees to abusive mortgage lending practices, our broken financial system produces profits at the...

TAGS: Barack Obama, Cato Institute, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, FDIC, Free Market, George Selgin, John Tammy, Loyola Economics Club, Mark Calabria, National Consumer Protection Week, RealClearMarkets

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future

A Tax Plan for Our Brighter Future paper-digital In Louisiana’s Comeback: A Tax Reform for Our Brighter Future, the Pelican Institute identifies the state’s significant tax problems and proposes a path to set the state in a brighter direction, including flattening the personal and corporate income taxes to 3.5% rates, reducing the number of tax preferences, eliminating...

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