There is a growing drumbeat from some high-profile economists to reassure Americans that large increases in income and wealth taxes won’t distort labor markets. Yet much of their arguments are very misleading.
During October 2019, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 4.95 percent. That's up from September's rate of 3.10 percent, and was up from October 2018's rate of 3.49 percent.
The ECB, always happy to repeat the mistakes of Japan, is likely to start new programs of debt monetization for green projects and claim it is a different, radical and new measure.
Paul Cantor's new book provides a new look at how the "American dream" is shown in pop culture as offering both hope and frustration.
Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.
If governments really want to help former criminals get jobs, they should stop turning so many small-time offenses into crimes.
Paternalism has in recent years made a comeback, but its philosophical foundation is quite flimsy.
To prohibit discrimination in employment is to infringe upon freedom of association, freedom of thought, private property, and freedom in general.
For many Brazilian voters, Jair Bolsonaro offered a chance to break with decades of failed economic policies. Time will tell if they were right.
Many advocates claim government intervention is necessary because markets are too unstable. The real instability, however, comes from the immense uncertainty over what government will do next with its vast and arbitrary power.
