Rent Control: A History of Failure
Rent controls are a recipe for less housing, and unaffordable rents. At least for most people.
Mises Wire
Walter Bagehot and the Problem of the “Lender of Last Resort”
James Grant's new book Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, reveals there we can still learn a lot from the world that existed before our modern era of central banking.
Negative Interest Rates are the Price We Pay for De-Civilization
The destruction of capital, economic and otherwise, is contrary to every human impulse.
Greenspan Expects the US to Embrace Negative Interest Rates. Here’s Why That Would be “Catastrophic.”
Central banks’ economic models predict deeper negative rates are necessary in the event that a significant recession materializes. This would be a disaster.
The UN’s Climate Change Agenda is So Extreme Its Own Analysts Can’t Defend It
This should be shocking to naïve citizens and those who assumed that “the science” must all support the UN’s temperature goals.
Rothbard Lectures on American History: Lost and Found
While searching through my apartment after a tragic fire, under soot and ash, I found these “lost” Rothbard lectures, recorded at NYU in 1979 and 1980.
Fear of Persecution is Not an Excuse for Christian Statism
Libertarian Christians should be aware that they are not compromising their beliefs or somehow acting in a way divorced from Christian history and orthodoxy when they do not join illiberal Christians in their quest for power and control over non-believers.
Walmart’s Healthcare Experiment Has Begun, It May Be A Game Changer
Here we see two rival strategies to marketing healthcare services. The status quo is based on insurance payments and price secrecy. Walmart's strategy is based on price competition.
Why the Government Can’t Measure Income, Happiness, or Well-Being
When a parent leaves the work force to focus on parenting, this shows up in government stats as lower employment and less consumer spending — suggesting a less productive economy. But that's not what's going on at all.
The History of Sin
The Puritan impulse for social reform produced social control that has been secularized, centralized, and has achieved a kind of permanence within government bureaucracy.
