Elizabeth Warren Shows Us Why Government Must Get Out of the Student Loan Business
Under Warren's plan for higher education, Warren won’t make you go to college — but she’ll make you pay for it.
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Bitcoin, Gold, and the Battle for Sound Money
Bitcoin is a shot across the bow at government’s monopoly control of money. While no one in the US appreciates the direction money is going, others are waking up.
How College Profs Push Students to Socialism
The true aim of these “scholar activists,” as many academics have begun calling themselves, is to propagate socialism by redefining capitalism to encompass every evil of human history. Which means they're mostly attacking straw men.
Inflation: The Rumors of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated
The real money-creating machines are commercial banks. Loan dollars become deposit dollars. Lots of lending means the money aggregates increase. Little lending means the opposite.
Occupational Licensing — An Unnecessary Evil
The number of jobs that require an occupational license now covers 30% of the US workforce, up from 5% in 1950.
Elizabeth Warren’s New Antitrust Crusade: A New Progressive War on Wealth
Warren and her fellow progressives have the regulatory issue with respect to free markets and public utilities almost precisely backwards.
Elizabeth Warren’s Antitrust Crusade: A New Progressive War on Wealth
In their war on "monopolies," Progressives like Elizabeth Warren show they don't understand the history of anti-monopoly legislation, and they also don't understand that modern day "monopolies" aren't really monopolies at all.
Cash for Clunkers: Yet Another Way Government Increased the Cost of Living
No economy is made better off by destroying existing resources. But that's what "cash for clunkers" tried to do, while only driving up the price of transportation for middle and lower-middle class families.
The Threat of a US Government Debt Trap
It is challenging to see how governments can escape from their debt traps when interest rates rise above the levels currently forecasted.
