Black Markets as Free Markets
Regulation tightens and threatens. Taxes and fees too prove to be a daunting disincentive to the hope of ever producing, selling, or buying a good. There are rules and there are laws. Too numerous...
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Liberty vs. the Laffer Curve
”I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not...
View ArticlePelosi wants Recognition for Dignity.
Nancy Pelosi has indicated that “a Congressional pay cut undermines the dignity of the job.” Well first, since when is Congress dignified? One would have to be considerably blind to think that...
View ArticleApple and Microsoft Exploit Consumers!!
With the release of Xbox One by Microsoft and a new operating system and other innovations by Apple, I have seen a great number of comments that, due especially to price, these two technological...
View ArticleCapitalism is About Savings
“If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars’ worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn’t.”...
View ArticleRead Rothbard (Says Lew Rockwell)
Writes Lew, We’ve just completed another successful Mises University, the summer instructional seminar for students hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Interest in Austrian economics continues...
View ArticleBecky Akers at LRC writes…
Becky Akers writes: Charlie Anderson, responding to the post about Pillary’s prattling tour and the article discussing her anguish at denying folks the “right” to vote (ahem: for her), points out that...
View ArticleRon Paul Answer Regarding Fed on Reddit
Question (via rolldownthewindow): Would you prefer to have the Federal Reserve powers returned to the United States Congress and have congress control the money supply and interest rate, or would you...
View ArticlePrice Inflation Illusions
Robert Wenzel at Economic Policy Journal writes the below under a post which was titled: “Here’s Why You Think Price Inflation Is Much Higher Than What the Government Says.” According to the Bureau of...
View ArticleWill Christians Ever Stop Loving the Empire?
Thanks to RA Jameson for pointing out a devastating quote by a Christian Theologian, who, while perhaps not agreeable on everything theologically, is decently influential in conservative circles and is...
View ArticlePolitico: “Fitch Ratings has put US debt on ‘rating watch negative”
So what is their explanation for this? Because “of the government’s inability to raise the debt ceiling in a timely manner.” Only a government would be downgraded for not taking on more debt at a time...
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Daily Caller: “White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies...
From The Daily Caller: The White House is pressuring insurance companies not to speak publicly about Obama administration policies that could eliminate the existing health insurance plans of millions...
View ArticleBlockbuster Busting Mainstream Economics
USA TODAY: The retail company that introduced millions of Americans to stay-home movie nights said Wednesday it will close its 300 remaining U.S. stores by early January next year. Its DVD-by-mail...
View ArticleDavid Stockman on the Fed’s Balance Sheet
David Stockman is the author of the new book The Great Deformation. For anyone interested in recent monetary policy history and an overview of the monetary culprits that have forced into our current...
View ArticleRace to Debase: The Greatest Myth
Patrick Barron writes at Mises Canada that “the greatest economic myth in the world today [is] that debasing one’s own currency is the path to economic recovery and prosperity.” There are a lot of...
View ArticleLiberty vs. the Laffer Curve
”I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not...
View ArticlePeter Klein on Newly Approved Stanley Fischer
Peter Klein at Circle Bastiat (Mises blog) writes: The Senate has confirmed Stanley Fischer to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, where he will soon become the Fed’s #2 official as Vice Chair....
View ArticleGeorge Reisman Dismantles Piketty
In only a handful of paragraphs George Reisman reveals the problem of the thesis put forward by French economist Thomas Piketty. Piketty, as many readers are already aware, has released a massive...
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Public vs. Private: How to Handle a Failure
A difference between private and public service failure, among other things, is that whereas in the private sector the business gets less money, in the public sector, the agency or department gets...
View ArticleBlack Markets as Free Markets
Regulation tightens and threatens. Taxes and fees too prove to be a daunting disincentive to the hope of ever producing, selling, or buying a good. There are rules and there are laws. Too numerous...
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