Interventionism

Interviewed by host Barb Adams, Mark Thornton talks about ‘The Great Gatsby’, the economics of prohibition, gun control, and more.

David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.

If we define austerity more properly as a reduction in the size of government, then it cannot be held responsible for the crisis in Europe, because it was never tried.

Social insurance co-opts all potential sources of political opposition, making it inherently a fiscal doomsday machine.

A woman in the audience became overwhelmed by the speech and said that she no longer needed to worry if she could make her car or mortgage payments because he would take care of it for her.

The Bank of Japan has embarked on one of the most inflationary policies ever undertaken.

The gold “price rule" is by no means a gold standard; nor is it a cure for our monetary ills.

Fannie Mae’s journey started with a filing cabinet containing a few thousand mortgage notes christened as the nation’s “secondary mortgage market.”

With such pronounced expansion, will the U.S. soon experience significant price inflation, and if so, how severe may it be?

Bruce Bartlett recently lamented that we need more Keynesian medicine to fix the US economy.