The World’s Central Banks Are Frozen with Fear
A look at the world's largest central banks suggests there's no appetite for anything that resembles quantitative tightening.
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Entrepreneurship’s Split-Personality Problem
Practice and theory are often seen as being distinct and in conflict with each other. But, hands-on entrepreneurs can learn a lot from economic theory.
Brexit Has Put EU Politicians in Panic Mode
The UK is in a much better negotiating position than the EU, and the EU knows it.
Inflation and Mercantilism in America: Five Cases
If inflation is the health of the State, how and in what way has government generated inflation in the history of the United States?
Public-Sector Unions Keep the Gravy Train Flowing to Fire Departments
Fire departments rarely fight fires anymore, but you wouldn't know it the way department salaries are soaring.
Economists Are Not Plumbers
The American Economic Review has published Esther Duflo's Richart T. Ely Lecture, "The Economist as Plumber".
The States Are Revolting Against the War on Drugs
The Vermont state legislature has voted to legalize recreational marijuana use. This is a first, since other states have relied on statewide votes.
Ditch Net Neutrality Now
The scarcity of internet bandwidth cannot be legislated away, and consumers would benefit most from market allocation — not state control.
Milton Friedman Debunked — by Econometricians
Despite arbitrarily fudging the data, Friedman was unable to support one of his most central claims — that the demand for money is very stable.
Why Socialism Promotes “Free Love” Over Family
It is no accident that the rise of free love in the U.S. accompanied the rise of the fully developed welfare state.
