Christopher E. Baecker

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Venezuelan Gangs, Affordable Housing, and Bad Policy

10/25/2024 Power & Market Christopher E. Baecker

For years I have held up Venezuela in my economics classes as an example of bad government policy. Now it appears that the fallout from those policies has led to more crime being exported to cities...

It All Began When the Government Tried to Make Housing More Affordable

06/28/2024 Mises Wire Christopher E. Baecker

I attended a neighborhood association meeting recently on the inner west side of San Antonio. The concerns were probably not unlike those of residents in other United States urban centers: crime...

History versus Economics: Explaining the Causes of the Great Depression

01/10/2024 Mises Wire Christopher E. Baecker

“Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now, controls the past.” That is from “Testify,” a song by newly minted rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Famers Rage against the Machine...

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It All Began When the Government Tried to Make Housing More Affordable

07/12/2024 Christopher E. Baecker

The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that government intervention into the market tends to make things worse. He was right.

History versus Economics: Explaining the Causes of the Great Depression

01/18/2024 Christopher E. Baecker

While economics textbooks are weak on causes of the Great Depression, American history texts are even worse. It's time for some truth telling.

No, We Don’t Need a New New Deal

01/10/2021 Christopher E. Baecker

There are few sacred cows in American politics more revered than the New Deal. Yet the New Deal did nothing to end the Depression and it still negatively impacts our economy today. Now we're being told the United States needs a new New Deal.

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