Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage
In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period.
Interventionism
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The Unseen Costs of “Medicare for All”
Many of the worst costs that will come with "Medicare for All" won't be calculated in dollars. They'll come in the form of doctor shortages, long wait times, and less access to care.
Tucker Carlson and AOC Are Wrong About Christianity and Usury
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks Christian theology supports her bill on excessive interest. Her position ignores the actual history of Christian views of usury.
The Meaning of Competition
Competition is a process of the formation of opinion: by spreading information, it creates that unity and coherence of the economic system which we presuppose when we think of it as one market.
The Broken Window
The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics.
The Lesson
The whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.
The Gateway Drug Myth
The Time magazine article creating "the gateway drug" myth in the 1970s provided no citations for its claims, except ambiguous references to unnamed “experts.” The evidence remains elusive forty years later.
Do We Really Have a Decade Left to Solve Climate Change?
The scare tactics from Beto O'Rourke and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is yet another example demonstrating the farce of the climate change policy debate.
The Regulatory-Industrial Complex
In every administration, the tools of inflation, borrowing, taxation, and regulation are used to transfer wealth from the people to the government.
