Monetary Theory

Our town council, who loves taxes like my cat loves cream is talking about a sales tax increase: a frequent subject of their deliberations. Only a miniscule addition they say. Pennies. Who'll miss a 5 penny penalty on a 5 dollar purchase. We should line up to give our political servants this...

Mises and Rothbard created a very strong following of fine scholars and brilliant minds. But critiques are always a feature that a very much alive tradition such as the Austrian School needs to have and use for improvement. And sometimes improvement implies bringing back forgotten doctrines of...

What could these two thinkers, considered to be opposites, have in common? It turns out that Karl Marx inherits from Adam Smith a very basic error, one which has monumental consequences and has changed the world forever.

Adam Smith tells us in his famous treatise on the wealth of nations...

In his new NBER working paper Martin Feldstein writes that "Reducing the large current account deficit will require both a higher rate of national saving and a more competitive dollar."

I love it: "a more competitive dollar"

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