Nick Ottens

Nick Ottens is the editor of the transatlantic news and commentary site the Atlantic Sentinel and a contributing analyst with Wikistrat, and he blogs about politics and economics at Free Market Fundamentalist. He is also a historian whose current research is in the area of Islamic revivalist movements and terrorism in 19th-century British India.

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Just How Bad Are Britain’s Spending Cuts?

06/27/2011 Mises Daily Nick Ottens

Britain’s government workers should man up and accept that the free ride is over.

The President’s Own Dumb Rules

03/01/2011 Mises Daily Nick Ottens

President Barack Obama promised recently in a Wall Street Journal op-ed to undertake a grand review of economic regulation in the United States and get rid of rules that “are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.” Yet he has added plenty of dumb regulations himself.

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