Return to prosperity: how America can regain its economic superpower status

PART ONE: REACTIVE POLICIES. Energy independence and protectionism

Energy independence and foreign policy

Offshore drilling

Cap-and-trade regulations

Nuclear power

Fiscal stimulus

The increase in public debt

Is the stimulus working?

Cash for clunkers

Tax the rich to pay for government

President Obama and health care

Minimum wage laws and unions create unemployment

PART TWO: FISCAL POLICY. Getting tax policies right

Grow the pie or divide the pie

Economic fiction is driving fiscal policies

Righting our economic course: the complete flat tax

Tax amnesty

Addressing global warming while growing the economy

Fight poverty and the poverty trap with enterprise zones

Other flat-tax proposals

PART THREE: MONETARY AND TRADE POLICIES: INTEREST RATES, EXCHANGE RATES, AND INFLATION. Monetary policy

There is no connection between growth and inflation

Setting the stage for financial collapse: the alchemy of 2003-2009

Lessons from the great depression

Trade policy

Summary: a prescription for America

Appendix: The Laffer Curve.