Herding Lizards
The lizard part of our brains pushes aside the cognitive areas when we make investment decisions.
Taxes and Spending
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Military Spending and Bastiat’s “Unseen”
Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent or invested in the civilian economy.
Mankiw vs. Rothbard on Tax Reform
A Rothbardian perspective shows that even many of today's free-market economists concede too much to the government when discussing tax reform.
The Snowball of Empire
In many ways the United States' foreign policy is much like that winter snowball game.
Soak the Poor
Populists didn't think their income-tax gadget would ever be used to "soak the poor."
The Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications
The Georgists continue to raise questions that need answering. A point-by-point examination of single-tax theory is long overdue.
The New Confusion about Taxes
The imposition of new taxes shifts wages and prices in ways that are impossible to predict beforehand and difficult to measure even after the fact.
In Praise of the Capitalist 1 Percent
What the protesters do not realize is that the wealth of the 1 percent provides the standard of living of the 99 percent.
