Supporters of the new California minimum wage law for fast-food restaurants claim it will bolster economic opportunity for lower-income people. It actually will be a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.
The price of copper has hit an all-time high. This represents a signal about the world economy.
Ryan and Zach talk about how the realities of expensive industrial warfare are still relevant.
For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all?
Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation.
In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.
On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.
Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation.
With Gov. Jim Pillen’s recent signature, Nebraska has become the 12th state to end capital gains taxes on sales of gold and silver.
The attempt by the mainstream economics profession to create economic literacy has turned into a movement to promote economic illiteracy.
