Wayne H. Winegarden Ph.D. is a partner in the firm Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics, a Lecturer in Economics at Marymount University, and a contributor to the website freeenterpriser.com. Dr. Winegarden's research examines the impact on industries from current macroeconomic, policy and regulatory trends as well as tailored market and industry analyses; and presents his research findings to clients, conferences, and in the media including Bloomberg News and CNN-fn. Previously, Dr. Winegarden worked as an economist in Hong Kong for Philip Morris Asia Ltd where he forecasted economic trends for East-Asian Economies and created economic, fiscal, and pricing models that were leveraged as part of the company's 5-year planning process. Dr. Winegarden also worked for Philip Morris Companies Inc. in New York City where he was responsible for managing the company's tax and budget analyses and government affairs argumentation. Prior thereto, Dr. Winegarden worked for policy and trade associations in Washington D.C. where he authored papers and editorials on timely tax, budget, and regulatory issues and advised association members on the implications from domestic economic trends. Dr. Winegarden is the author of several policy and academic papers. He has a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Soda taxes are becoming every politicians "go-to" revenue source. Governor Patterson (D-NY) spearheaded an attempt to implement a tax on soda in New York State earlier this year. Despite his promise not to raise taxes http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/10/31/taxing_the_middle_class_with_soda_taxes b8a213b5-80dd-4330-9e9b-87903c1c0029 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/07/18/the_chicago_way 41c3532e-482b-423e-9354-d18409451fb7 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Painting the roses red; And many a tear we shed; Because we know; They'll cease to grow; In fact, they'll soon be dead; And yet we go ahead. [Alice:] Oh, pardon me; But mister three; Why must you paint them... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/06/06/obama's_health_care_reform_"paints_the_roses_red" f4972949-bab0-4195-a9a4-f35aca8165fd Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Throughout his first 100 days President Obama has amply demonstrated his fundamental belief that government knows best. His rash and intrusive decisions intended to return the U.S. economy to prosperity illustrate that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/04/25/the_2009_de-stimulus_program_risks_"a_lost_decade" 07d70a61-f87e-4c25-9ee7-99e7263b33fe Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:01:00 GMT Lost for what to do, there appears to be only one cure-all the government will consider for the current economic crisis: spend, spend, spend. First, there was an initial stimulus package pushed by the Bush... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/03/14/government_spending_is_not_the_answer 4db7e9ae-71dc-4054-844c-39737cd355d9 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:01:00 GMT Over 2,400 years ago the famous Greek historian, Herodotus, counseled that "Haste in every business brings failure." Now in power, President Obama and the democratic Congress are moving with great haste to spend an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2009/01/24/fiscal_illusion 62791d23-c471-4e4f-8dde-d78ffcec50c6 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:01:00 GMT Perhaps the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement of the late 1990's and early 2000's was simply a fad - an expendable corporate distraction that companies entertain during fat times. Now things are different.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/12/06/the_economic_recession_and_the_future_of_csr 577add83-fe35-44a8-8b35-55d35ab5f686 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT Learning from history requires a thoughtful analysis of what actually happened, not endlessly parroting a politically convenient slogan. The current economic crisis is not a repudiation of free markets, nor is it a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/10/25/lessons_from_the_housing_bubble 6d8d4d7d-2106-4e44-8112-08660e708996 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:01:00 GMT Herbert Simon once remarked ""That which cannot continue forever - won't." If only Secretary Paulson applied that wisdom to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs). The government chartered Fannie Mae in 1938 to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/09/13/bailing_out_fannie_and_freddie_short-term_gain,_long-term_pain bcbd00b6-4971-477d-964c-1609646d875e Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Gas prices may have retreated from their recent peak, but they are still outrageously high. More worrisome, current gas affordability levels (perhaps un-affordability level is more apt) may be just the beginning. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/08/02/rising_oil_prices_and_global_warming_connecting_the_facts f4d0a77c-556f-47a1-9dfd-e5e097e7eee4 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Thankfully, cap and trade - aka the Warner-Lieberman "America's Climate Security Act of 2007" - suffered a quick death in the Senate this year. Cap and trade is an inferior, anti-growth, environmental policy that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/06/21/cap_and_trade_fallacies 8dc8fdb8-ad24-4c87-8759-4130ad6d52b0 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT In the "Ship of Fools", Sebastian Brant remarked: "The world wants to be deceived". We want perfect abs in only "5 minutes a day". We want fat free ice cream that actually tastes good. And, in this vein,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/05/03/need_growth,_think_global_warming 0289420a-2ced-4753-887a-77c3f3e363ab Sat, 03 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT While not as troubled as George Bailey from "It's A Wonderful Life", Bill Gates is clearly in need of Clarence's assistance. For those who did not catch the movie this past Christmas, Clarence was the angel who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/02/23/creative_capitalism_or_capitalisms_creativity e7aa22b3-a968-41a5-a48a-1b7ae7d2248e Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:01:00 GMT Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. -- John Maynard Keynes. Whoever the Democrats choose as their candidate for president,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2008/01/12/csr_and_the_democratic_policies_of_the_2008_elections c2e5b06f-eb99-4bc9-9f90-dd9b2e98e9ef Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:01:00 GMT According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, one of the definitions of fairness is "conforming with the established rules." Based on this definition of fairness, the actions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/11/23/social_responsibility_activists_do_not_play_fair 70cd67b3-ca34-4be8-a3b6-4a81ff9d5ea9 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:03:08 GMT Economics teaches us that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Anyone that tells you differently is probably trying to sell you something. In this case, the "something being sold" is bio-fuels. Bio-fuels, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/10/13/the_cost_of_the_biofuel_free_lunch 82ca8768-93e8-4c58-813a-2f8a82309315 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT Today Corporate Social Responsibility is synonymous with environmental responsibility. Environmental responsibility, of course, means that a company accepts that global warming is occurring; man (particularly modern... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/09/01/cap__trade_regulations_will_create_an_energy_supply_shock 0f16eec2-495e-4612-b128-9039b706dfb1 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:01:01 GMT Concerns about global warming, and its potentially devastating impact on the planet, has caught Congress' attention. Global warming may well be serious, but so are the consequences from combating global warming. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/07/21/fighting_global_warming_the_liberal_way 43960a09-a544-4376-9cd2-3f8f3ade5c2d Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT In April of this year, the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story on Denmark titled "How Denmark Paved Way To Energy Independence". The article claims that "Through a wide variety of government-driven initiatives,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/06/09/economizing_energy_free_markets_or_government_decrees 83094bbb-1464-45ca-b9af-149e014be3ed Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Closing our eyes to the costs of global warming regulations will not make these costs disappear. And yet, the debate on global warming is progressing as if these costs do not exist. For instance, many leaders of the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/04/21/cap_and_trade_a_bad_trade-off_for_the_economy_and_company_earnings* 263d9ed5-6787-4606-8443-060957e6c845 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT Well, either you're closing your eyes To a situation you do now wish to acknowledge Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated. While Harold was talking about the perils of a pool table in Rive http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/03/10/csr_and_global_warming_economics ed4754a1-1d27-4854-95e0-da9667df97be Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:01:24 GMT Taking a cue from John Lennon, BusinessWeek is imagining "a world in which socially responsible and eco-friendly practices actually boost a company's bottom line." (BusinessWeek: January 29, 2007). The article cites... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2007/01/27/free_markets_or_corporate_social_responsibility 67380ec8-eb05-46f1-96b8-9e9ffb58d350 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:00:57 GMT Milton Friedman has been called the most influential economist from the second half of the 20th century. With his passing this month a great deal has been written regarding what he did and did not achieve. While Dr. F http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2006/12/02/corporate_social_responsibility_is_immoral e4e21597-5425-4cd5-87e3-eef0759a615b Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:00:01 GMT It's official. Nancy Pelosi is going to be the next Speaker of the House and Harry Reid will be the next Majority Leader of the Senate. Should the Left consolidate its power past 2008, the future of tax cuts and pro-g http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2006/11/17/csr_and_the_democratic_takeover e4e2542a-ed22-41a1-ae23-45b0a4ba1b27 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:07:16 GMT Economics matters; the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement obscures basic economic principles by redefining the meaning of a private transaction. Should this redefinition be successful, our economic growth... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneWinegarden/2006/09/30/the_economics_of_csr 10df95c8-4d71-44db-addf-79ec4476ba04 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 04:02:35 GMT