The Shutdown Shows Us How Unreliable and Harmful Government Can Really Be
The shutdown is an example of how the government cannot be counted on to deliver on its promises.
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The Power of Mises’s The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Back in 1998, I was working in the filthy world of trade.
Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson (1946): An Aging Friend’s Long-Overdue Assessment
The rise of interest in free market economics has come from outside academia and Economics in One Lesson has been a great part of this awareness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
