Power & Market
Using this Inflation Measure, Wage Growth Isn’t Keeping Up with Inflation
In the last two years, we've finally begun to see income and wage growth climb above the old 2007-2008 peak levels. But that's using CPI numbers. Wage growth may not stack up nearly as well if other, broader measures of price inflation are used.
Fed: “Underlying Inflation” Climbs to 13-Year High
The last time this inflation measure was as high was in April 2005, when it was at 3.36 percent.
Tom Woods on Reason TV: The Making of an Anti-War Libertarian
Tom Woods joined Matt Welch of Reason TV for a wide ranging interview with topics i
Trump’s Corny New Farm Bailout May Ruin Your Car
This week the Trump administration announced it will giving a major gift to American corn farmers by expanding the sale of ethanol in the US.
NAFTA 2.0: Free Trade or Central Planning?
A true free trade deal would simply reduce or eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers.
The Trickery Behind Keynes’s Flippant Remark about the “Long Run”
Keyne's remark that “in the long run we are all dead,” has never offered much insight.
What Hayek Said about the “Nobel Prize” in Economics
Today let us celebrate Friedrich Hayek, the reluctant and worthy Nobel winner.
The anti-Trump Nobel Prize in Economics
The Royal Academy made a clear political statement with this year's Nobel Prize in economics.
The Kavanaugh Circus is the Result of the Politicization of the Supreme Court
Why is this nomination the subject of such rancor?
