Author Archive: David Theroux

David J. Theroux is Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Independent Institute.
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82% Say More Government Stimulus Will Destroy Jobs


Monday September 6th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 12:31am PDT   •   0 Comments

In a new online poll by the Wall Street Journal, 82.2% of those participating are voting no to the question, “Can more government stimulus lower the nation’s unemployment rate?” As the article states: “Washington’s response to the country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate will depend in part on who wins an increasingly intense debate over…
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We Must Cut Taxes, Curb Spending and Crimp Regulations


Saturday September 4th, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 1:07am PDT   •   2 Comments

Independent Institute Senior Fellow William F. Shughart II‘s new article, “We must cut taxes, curb spending and crimp regulations,” is being syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services to newspapers across the United States and Canada, including the Sacramento Bee, Lexington Herald-Leader, Standard Times (Bedford, MA), Bellingham Herald, Albany Times-Union, Guelph Mercury, Kitchener Record, etc. “The…
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Entrepreneurs Know What the Federal Government Doesn’t


Friday September 3rd, 2010   •   Posted by David Theroux at 12:53am PDT   •   0 Comments

In my recent article in Investor’s Business Daily, I discuss the enormous harm from and hypocrisy of federal economic policies as they inhibit private entrepreneurship. The current era has been dubbed the “Information Age,” and well it is. Never before has so much information been available so broadly and on such a level of…
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