What Shutdown? Federal Spending per Day Is Down Only 7 Percent
Spending $12 billion per day is not a shutdown. Spending 7% less than you spent last year is not a shutdown.
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Government Spending Doesn’t Create Economic Growth
Government spending doesn't create wealth. It destroys wealth.
France’s Protests: Why It’s Different This Time
The core problems protested by the "Yellow Vests" are largely of an economic nature, while they also targeted the political class that is widely seen as being out of touch with reality.
When Science Isn’t Science
Many modern scientists simply follow in the footsteps of Jacques Cousteau who once opined that “world population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”
Will Policy Makers Turn a Global Economic Slowdown Into a Crisis?
It is easy to blame weakening global markets on Trump, but it would be dangerous to believe that's the real cause of the slowdown.
The Interwar Years: Ludwig von Mises as Economic Adviser
As a government economist for Austria following WWI, Mises fought a losing battle against reckless policies of inflation and government spending.
The “Green New Deal” Debunked (Part 2 of 2)
The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.
Why Taiwan Grew Rich While the Mainland Starved
Although hardly "free-market" in any doctrinaire way, the relatively free economy of Taiwan delivered immense growth in standards of living while many Chinese on the mainland starved.
Venezuela’s Economic Collapse Was Enabled by its Central Bank
The Venezuelan central bank helped the regime destroy the middle class's wealth for many years.
The Euro Shows That a Fiat Money System Is More Expensive than We Thought
A traditional argument for unbacked fiat money was based on the idea it was less-costly to produce fiat money than gold or silver. This cost savings could then enrich society overall. But recent data suggests this isn't true.
