Moral Courage and the Austrian School
To be an economist with integrity means having to say things that people don't want to hear and especially to say things that the regime does not want to hear.
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How the Fed’s Inflation Is Driving Stock Buybacks
An explosion in the money supply has driven many corporate managers to turn to stock buybacks as a safe alternative to holding on to depreciating cash. This means many companies are decapitalizing.
The New New Deal Has Already Arrived. Thank the Covid Panic.
The new covid relief bill signals that whatever restraint on public spending existed before 2020 is now all but gone. And the bill represents the beginning of a new era: an era that can be likened to that of the New Deal.
State Issuance of Paper Money in the Early Republic
Most of the economic groups in the 1780s favored inflation: the main problem was in determining which groups would obtain the enjoyment of the newly created money.
One Year Later: The Police Still Won’t Come Clean on Duncan Lemp’s Death
Local politicians have pretended the Lemp killing never happened and the media let them get away with it—the same way that most of the New York media covered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home catastrophe last year.
It’s Time for the US to Withdraw from Korea
Pulling troops out of South Korea is an important step in changing the conversation on American foreign policy, which is swamped in platitudes of promoting missionary enterprises abroad and finding new bogeymen to confront.
Why the State Won’t Tolerate Independence for Christianity
The state seeks to not only supplant religious institutions by usurping their mundane functions but by usurping their spiritual functions as well. American Christian institutions form both a rival religion and a competing pole of social power.
Why a Green New Deal Is More Expensive Than Joe Biden Realizes
Wind and solar power can work well when placed in an ideal location. Much of the time, however, these projects require a lot of fossil fuel to produce, but then never deliver the promised "zero-carbon" energy.
In Some Countries, Lockdowns May Be the “New Normal”
While some countries in Europe are showing signs of lifting all restrictions soon, Ireland’s so-called leaders are telling citizens it cannot be guaranteed that they’ll even be able to holiday in their own country this summer.
What Does GDP Really Tell Us?
"Any concept of average price level involves adding or multiplying quantities of completely different units of goods, such as butter, hats, sugar, etc., and is therefore meaningless."
