Interventionism

Like Alan Greenspan before him, Ben Bernanke now collects huge fees for public speaking engagements.

The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation.

The true state of the old communist economy under Tito reveals an economy addicted to debt that lagged behind most of Europe.

The war on drugs did not prevent Philip Seymour Hoffman’s drug addiction.
 

The way GDP is calculated is problematic for many reasons. Many economists have long opposed government GDP statistics, because a government that can claim to know how much an economy has grown, can more easily claim that it can tinker with the economy to get more growth.

Interviewed by host Redmond Weissenberger, Joe Salerno discusses some ways that government interventionism can destroy an economy.

The current crisis and impending collapse of the EMU are attributable to profound flaws in the original monetary foundations of the euro.

Unions and collective bargaining are not necessarily illegitimate. Workers who seek other arrangements are not “free riders” but are victims of union monopoly power.

The greatest promotional offender is not the marketplace, but the arm twisting by government.

The decision to delay small employer mandates, but embrace reduced future labor supply is an example of bad economics, but good politics.