Rob Bradley Gives a Brief History of US Electricity Regulation, with Lessons for the Recent Texas Freeze
Debunking Piketty and the Left’s Celebrity Economists
Biden’s Rescue Plan Won’t Reduce Poverty
State Preemptions of Local Government Are a Bad Thing. Even When Ron DeSantis Does It.
The Never-Ending Battle between Leviathan and Liberty
They Said Things Would Be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong.
Shays’s Rebellion: Catalyst for the Counterrevolution
[Chapter 11 of Rothbard’s newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.]
Can Las Vegas Recover from Covid?
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The Clark County Commissioners voted recently to rename McCarran Airport to Harry Reid International Airport. The vote was unanimous among those who rule the Las Vegas Strip. The public doesn’t understand why Las Vegas International Airport wouldn’t do if McCarran’s past is so perturbing. Not everyone is so wild about Harry.
Yield Curve Control: Bubbles and Stagnation
Central banks do not manage risk, they disguise it. You know you live in a bubble when a small bounce in sovereign bond yields generates an immediate panic reaction from central banks trying to prevent those yields from rising further. It is particularly more evident when the alleged soar in yields comes after years of artificially depressing them with negative rates and asset purchases.
