Capital and Labor Both Suffer under Minimum Wage Mandates
Value Is Subjective: Neither Gold Nor Crypto Have “Real Value”
Reparations and the Black-White Achievement Gap
Many politicians and activists are now insisting that modern-day African Americans deserve reparations for the enslavement of black people in America prior to the Thirteenth Amendment. A prominent justification for reparations is the racial income gap, and activists think reparations will put blacks on equal footing with white Americans.
The Anti-imperialist Ludwig von Mises
The historian Quinn Slobodian presents us in his article “Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration, and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism,” Contemporary European History (2018), with a surprising interpretation of Ludwig von Mises. According to Slobodian, Mises was a racist who favored colonial wars of subjugation to open the world to trade. In this week’s article, I’d like to look at how Slobodian reaches this conclusion.
One Year Later: The Police Still Won’t Come Clean on Duncan Lemp’s Death
Accad ❤ Koka
Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says
What Really Happened With the Texas Power Grid
The Bank of Japan: An Economic Cautionary Tale
The dealings of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), creating a stranglehold on the Japanese market, reads like a cautionary tale for economists. The bank recently recorded a $130 billion USD profit! On the surface it sounds incredible. Yet, despite this newfound wealth for the BOJ, it seems the economy continues to struggle. Wall Street Journal reports:
