Karen De Coster, CPA

Karen DeCoster, CPA, has a BBA in Accounting and an MA in economics from Walsh College in Troy, Michigan.

She has written for an assortment of publications and organizations, including the Mises Institute, LewRockwell.com, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Heartland Institute, WorldNetDaily, Southern Events, Taki’s Magazine, Euro Pacific Capital, and the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute.

Articles

How Non-Profits Enhance Freedom and Markets

08/28/2014 Mises Daily Karen De Coster, CPA

[ Editor’s Note: Non-profits are often wrongly characterized as being “creations of government” that arose only as a response to the tax rules. In this Mises Daily article from 2006, Karen De Coster...

Emancipate the Consumer

02/01/2002 Free Market Karen De Coster, CPA

The Free Market 20, no. 2 (February 2002) Consumer protection regulation is the consumer’s worst nightmare. In fact, it is not protective at all. It is merely another one of those regulatory rackets...

Pork: The Government’s Other White Meat

01/08/2013 Mises Daily Karen De Coster, CPA

Years ago I began to cease eating pork because I came to despise it, but at the time, I didn’t really know why that was the case. I was turned off by the dry, white, crumbly texture and the inability...

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