Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, does not like the tax bill just passed by Congress. Writing in The New York Times, he finds the legislation “notably generous to corporations, high earners, inheritors of large estates and the owners of private jets.”
Most people who have been trying to advance liberty for some time know of Leonard Read. Creator of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, and bedrock of the first libertarian think-tank, he thought, talked and wrote about it for decades.
To understand the modern state, you must understand the Progressive Era. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Tyler Folger, Murray Rothbard’s definitive book on the Progressives is now available as a free audiobook.
Last night the Senate passed the Republican proposed tax plan, a major political victory for Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress.
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts. By Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press, 2017. Xix + 212 pages.
In the United States every ten minutes someone is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. While waiting for a transplant an average of 20 people die each day in the US, while 450 people die annually in the U.K. waiting for an organ donation.
Dr. Edward Stringham was quoted today in US News in an article on investing in a strong dollar next year.
His advice? Friends don’t let friends bet on a strong dollar.
[B]etting on the dollar can be risky, as it tends to lose value over the long term rather than gain, says Edward P. Stringham, president of the American Institute for Economic Research.
Writing for The Hill:
Donald Trump has been flogging the truth and twisting facts since the day he arrived in the Oval Office. But anyone who expected more candor from him as president than on the campaign trail was criminally naive. The real mystery nowadays is why the media seeks to expunge the falsehoods of prior presidents.
