Interventionism

Supporters of minimum wage hikes claim that such hikes have little or no effect on employment, but the law of demand makes it clear that the effects of such price controls are very real.

Elizabeth Warren outlines 11 Commandments of Progressivism and each requires coercion and politics to succeed, writes William Anderson.

The Fed and it's friends blamed cold weather for much of the year's lackluster economic growth. But cold weather does not explain the economic slowdown because cold weather does not stop economic activity, it merely shifts it to other activities and products.

Supporters of government interventions like minimum wages. Careful analysis reveals another story, however. Without sound theory to explain them, such simple statistics are meaningless.

US sanctions against Russia are just the latest incentive for the world’s economies to avoid dealing with the dollar, writes Ron Paul.

All this however, can be reversed by shrinking the size of the government and by the closure of all the loopholes of the monetary expansion.

The reality is that hyperinflation is caused by a loss of confidence in the money unit, which the monetary authorities may be incapable of preventing.

August 9, 2014 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing into law of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. FIRREA was enacted to clean up the savings and loan (S&L) financial debacle of the 1980s. In articles, books, symposia, and papers written in the wake of the debacle, popular media and mainstream financial economists each provided explanations of the debacle. This paper analyzes and rejects these explanations in favor of an alternative based on Ludwig von Mises’s observation that market interventions create unintended consequences that usually lead to more interventions that in turn create new waves of unintended and worsening consequences until no more interventions are possible.

Protectionism harms US consumers by taking away options they prefer (and patriotism does not justify helping some American producers beggar American consumers).

Politicians tell us that tax cuts aren’t necessary for economic growth.