Why Luxury Goods Make Everyone Better Off
Money spent on "luxuries" goes to support ordinary people who use profits from luxury goods to make a living and support their families.
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Italy’s Problem Is Not The Euro, It’s Political Spending
Blaming the euro will not save Italy. Italy’s problem is political spending — the same problem that this new budget is going to greatly increase.
Yes, PC is Real. Yes, it is Illiberal
If you believe The Atlantic, rejection of PC culture is hardly limited to the Right.
Is Technological Know-How the Key to Economic Growth?
To obtain more economic growth, what is needed is a supply of saved capital to put the advanced technological methods into effect.
Rent Control and Minimum Wage Laws Harm Those Who Are Supposed to Benefit
Government policy often lumps together many people it shouldn't — assuming that everyone in the group labeled "poor" or "low-income" will all benefit equally.
Understanding “Brazil’s Donald Trump”
As they did with Trump, the media categorizes Brazil's Bolsonaro as a “hateful” candidate, but it never tries to take a serious look at how Brazilians have suffered under leftist regimes.
The Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson’s Constitutional Crisis that Risked Dissolving the Union
Was Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase an early example of presidential malfeasance?
The Myth of Synchronized Growth and the Era of Secular Stagnation
We have been hearing from central banks that we were living in a synchronized growth territory. Well, it wasn’t the case.
James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal
The vast regime of torture created by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks continues to haunt America.
The President’s Economic Betrayal
In this 1971 New York Times editorial, Murray Rothbard described how, under Nixon's "New Economic Policy," "fascism came to America."
