The Myth of Infrastructure Spending
Almost everyone agrees that infrastructure spending is always a slam dunk for the economy. Unfortunately, they're often wrong.
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Jeff Deist Joins Power Trading Radio to Discuss the Economy
Jeff joins John O'Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld to discuss the health of the US economy.
Mises-Influenced MP Becomes Brexit Minister
Hopefully Steve Baker will prove to be a great asset for the UK in its divorce from Jean-Claude Juncker and the bureaucracy in Brussels.
Mobility and Nobility
In this review of two new books on social class, Theordore Dalrymple examines some of the realities that frustrate the efforts of the egalitarians.
Government Guaranteed Income is Not a Solution
Henry Hazlitt's critique of Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax remains relevant as libertarians continue to embrace Universal Basic Income.
Could Donald Trump Save the Internet?
The Trump's rejection of "net neutrality" is a loss for government regulators, but a win for the internet.
Fed Officials Can’t See What’s Right In Front Of Them
Why is it so controversial to suggest that we should leave interest rates and credit markets alone?
Maskin on Samuelson
Eric Maskin has made some extravagant claims for the significance of Paul Samuelson.
Wages and Subsistence
Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs are cruel but because they are subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers.
The Collapse of Penn Station: Another Failure of Government “Enterprise”
Without government, who would run the inefficient, crumbling, malfunctioning railroad "enterprise" that is Amtrak?
