Judy Shelton’s Lasting Legacies
While her record is hardly perfect, Judy Shelton has been a rarity among monetary economists: an advocate for gold and sound money.
While her record is hardly perfect, Judy Shelton has been a rarity among monetary economists: an advocate for gold and sound money.
The estimated unfunded Social Security and Medicare liability is $175.3 trillion. If you think that will be financed with taxes “on the rich,” you have a problem with basic math.
Government schooling advocates are demanding that homeschoolers be regulated by public school authorities. Perhaps homeschooling advocates should be monitoring the government.
Contra critical theorists, who claim human reason is nothing more than a social construct, reason is both understandable and universal. We cannot abandon it, for if we do, we abandon liberty itself.
We are seeing Joseph Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction at work in higher education. The shake-up will continue.
Supporters of the new California minimum wage law for fast-food restaurants claim it will bolster economic opportunity for lower-income people. It actually will be a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.
The watchword in higher education today is decolonization, which depends upon what Ludwig von Mises called racial polylogism. Mises understood that polylogism undermines the very foundations of scientific thought.
Praxeology is the key to understanding economic relationships. While Ludwig von Mises emphasized human action while making economic observations, Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer emphasized the importance of how individuals view the world.
The mentality of Build Back Better is not just confined to the US. Around the world, governments are resorting to the ancient tradition of using massive amounts of resources to build things that glorify the state, not add to the economy.
Israel’s defenders act like Netanyahu and his allies have had no choice but to react to October 7 in the manner that they have. But that isn’t true.