we create the illusion that the free market is just another kind of government policy where the rulers offer us a solution. But the real solutions are offered by free individuals, by the free innovator, the free worker, the free capitalist, and the free entrepreneur. Solutions
January 2017, we should scrutinize her economic beliefs and her proposed economic policies, as we may well have to be living them in less than two years. Not If one combines that Clinton line with other things she has said about economic policy, as well as what is written on her website about what she calls “ the economy aid businesses in expanding domestic and overseas markets. She claims to support innovation, yet has brutally attacked the “sharing economy,” which has been a large
of the modern financial system and the underlying expansionary monetary policy. What Is Money? The first chapter deals with the nature and origins of money. whether prices actually rise or not, due to other factors such as technological innovation that are at work at the same time. The Austrian insight is that prices are
is just another federal legislature, although this one decides matters of public policy based on the opinions of a mere five people, most of whom spend their time would have rejected the whole notion of judicial review, which is itself a total innovation and fabrication dreamed up by Chief Justice John Marshall. Absolutely
leads to higher costs and lower quality. It reduces economic growth, jobs, wages, innovation, and productivity. Attempts to control economic growth through government rates. The Bank warns: “It is unrealistic and dangerous to expect that monetary policy can cure all the global economy’s ills.” Obamacare could allow bureaucracies
president , Juan Perón, who had been ousted four years before. Perón’s economic policies were supposed to empower and uplift the people, but only created poverty and first in a series, the transcriptions of which are collected in the book Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow , edited by Margit. Life (and Death) Before
slant to everything that passes through their hands. Even where the direction of policy is in the hands of men of affairs of different views, the execution of policy will in general be in the hands of intellectuals, and it is frequently the every one of these general conceptions has been made the touchstone by which innovations in different fields have been tested. It seems as if the less specific or
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