Interventionism

Peter Klein discusses property rights, privilege, and free markets, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision.

Industrious low-income people often must turn to doing business in the black market to avoid the burdensome costs of government regulations. The creation of a cashless society would ensure that even these opportunities to make a living will be abolished forever.

Those who are calling for small reforms like changes to the Fed’s dual mandate are wrong. It is now clear that the Fed and the European Central Bank are hard-wired to inflate the money supply while encouraging banks to make excessively risky loans. Radical changes are needed.

Think the government is expensive?

Despite claims to the contrary, Japan’s economy is continuing to suffer mightily under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Abe’s so-called “three arrows” of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform, have crippled the Japanese economy with higher taxes, inflation, and easy money.

Jeff Deist discusses how the Fed creates a perilous landscape in which there is no honest pricing—everything has been distorted—even at the consumer level.

A little-known loophole in federal law allows people with disabilities to be employed below the minimum wage, writes Nicholas Freiling.

For 100 years, the Fed has served to protect the interests of powerful banks through inflationary monetary policy. The Dallas Fed opened an historical exhibit, the Kansas City Fed released a documentary, and the New York Fed even started a Facebook page, all to commemorate the date.

There is a little-known loophole in federal law that allows for people with disabilities to be employed at wage rates below the minimum wage. Why the exemption? It’s an effort to lessen unemployment among the disabled, and a tacit admission in federal law that minimum wages cause unemployment.