Memorial Day and the Meaning of Freedom
What does freedom really mean? Freedom is the absence of state coercion. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.
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We Don’t Need to Create Jobs — We Need to Create Value
Wages spring directly from, and are proportional to, the degree in which a job creates wealth by helping to satisfy an unmet need.
There Ain’t no Economics in Economic Impact Studies
Interest groups often commission "impact studies" that just happen to prove the economy will benefit from whatever the interest group wants to do.
Federal Bureaucrat to the Public: Be Afraid!
Governments have always thrived on the fear of the taxpayers, and the DHS secretary is sure that if we knew what he knew, we'd "never leave the house."
Week in Review: May 27, 2017
Trump's budget signals that as far as government spending goes, it's business as usual in Washington.
What Keeps James Bullard Up at Night
We all have our worries in life. For Bullard, it's that your cost of living is not as high as it should be.
The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition
In a typical case of an industry using government to fight the competition, the American Optometric Assoc. wants a monopoly in the eyecare industry.
How Not to Study the State
Most high school government classes offer an analysis of the state that's shockingly simplistic and simple-minded.
How Washington’s Reaction to Trump’s Budget Justifies the Rise of Bitcoin
As politicians prove to be unable to confront economic reality, it’s easy to see how crypto-currencies are becoming increasingly attractive.
The Trump Budget: Real Cuts vs. the Media Version of “Cuts”
The Trump budget proposes to increase spending on Medicaid by slightly less that what had been earlier proposed. In DC-speak, this is called a "cut."
