How Much Free Gasoline Costs
Many oil-rich countries subsidize the sales of gasoline. Venezuela sells gasoline for less than 2 cents a gallon.
Interventionism
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Nominal GDP Targeting: New-Fangled Monetarism or Old-Fashioned Keynesianism? Can This New Fad Save the Fed?
Despite market monetarism’s recent popularity, nominal GDP targeting fails to achieve the end of aiding macroeconomic coordination.
Mrs. Thatcher’s Poll Tax
Whereas in the US, conservative economists tend to hail proportionate taxation as ideal, the Thatcherites have apparently understood the fallacy of this position.
Lessons from Cyprus
The first lesson to be learned is not to trust pronouncements about the safety of banks.
Is Secession Legal?
From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Grover Cleveland and Hawaiian Annexation: The Case for Self-Determination
From the session on “Secession: A Mainstay of Freedom,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.
The US Corporate State
The crash was said to prove how destructive “unregulated capitalism” could be and how dangerous its supporters were.
Taxation is Robbery, Part 1
What sanction, in morals, does the State adduce for the taking of property?
“Tax Expenditures”: Not Taxing Is Allegedly Spending
In effect, the government’s not taking is alleged to be giving. Its not taxing is alleged to be spending.
Why the Greenbackers Are Wrong
A subset of the end-the-Fed crowd opposes the Fed for peripheral or entirely wrongheaded reasons.
