Changes in the Money Supply Don’t Cause Business Cycles
Business cycles do not result from mere fluctuations in the money supply. What is needed is that the changes occur with money made "out of thin air."
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We Don’t Need to Create Jobs — We Need to Create Value
Wages spring directly from, and are proportional to, the degree in which a job creates wealth by helping to satisfy an unmet need.
Memorial Day and the Meaning of Freedom
What does freedom really mean? Freedom is the absence of state coercion. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.
Self-Determination, not Universalism, is the Goal
The future is decentralized; why are so many libertarians arguing for the opposite?
There Ain’t no Economics in Economic Impact Studies
Interest groups often commission "impact studies" that just happen to prove the economy will benefit from whatever the interest group wants to do.
How Not to Study the State
Most high school government classes offer an analysis of the state that's shockingly simplistic and simple-minded.
The Eye-Care Industry Wants Big Government to Crush the Competition
In a typical case of an industry using government to fight the competition, the American Optometric Assoc. wants a monopoly in the eyecare industry.
What Keeps James Bullard Up at Night
We all have our worries in life. For Bullard, it's that your cost of living is not as high as it should be.
Week in Review: May 27, 2017
Trump's budget signals that as far as government spending goes, it's business as usual in Washington.
Federal Bureaucrat to the Public: Be Afraid!
Governments have always thrived on the fear of the taxpayers, and the DHS secretary is sure that if we knew what he knew, we'd "never leave the house."
