Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado Novo’s demise, but anti-capitalist thinking still dominates among Portugal’s ruling elites.
No one can legitimately create a monopoly on ideas. The problems of freedom are solved with more freedom and worsened with less.
Even as historians have softened on their outlook on Hoover, they usually still manage to avoid the obvious connection between interventionism and lack of economic recovery.
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.
Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more than a weighted average of numbers put into an arbitrary formula. It is time to end this statistical charade for good.
As the US economy slowly deteriorates, the government's response is to intervene and to inflate. This does not end well.
Prices in veterinary services for pets have skyrocketed in the UK since 2020, but the only solution interventionists can find is antitrust policy.
The central philosophy of progressivism is that we should be governed by so-called experts. What happens, however, when the “experts” are just plain wrong?
Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.
