The Bank of England Abandons Cryptocurrencies — For Now
An adoption of digital currencies by central banks could bring the next generation of central bankers more power than their predecessors imagined.
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Decentralize the Elections
The federal government is using the threat of foreign hackers as an excuse to further nationalize elections in the United States.
Feds To Create Yet Another Ethnic Category?
When government creates special demographic categories for groups of people, the effects on public policy can be far reaching.
Uncle Sam May Tip Deutsche Bank Over the Edge
The US Dept. of Justice wants to extract billions in fines from Deutsche Bank. German taxpayers may then be on the hook for the inevitable bailout.
Central Banks Sheepish as Savers Keep Saving
Frightened by an unstable economy and low returns, savers are saving even more and frustrating the plans of central bankers.
Don’t Slap a New Tax on High-Frequency Trading
High-frequency trading is not the nefarious scheme policymakers would have you believe it is. It serves a real purpose in the marketplace.
Spain Is without a National Government — And Spaniards Are Digging It
No functioning government in Spain for the last 10 months, and the country is prospering.
Why Intellectuals Fall for Socialism
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It has long depended on intellectuals to push the interventionist agenda.
Henry Hazlitt’s Dystopia: A Review of Time Will Run Back
Henry Hazlitt brings to his only novel, Time Will Run Back, the same clarity and ease for the reader he brought to Economics in One Lesson.
The Trumped-Up Myths Behind “Trickle-Down” Economics
The critique of "trickle-down" economics relies on a mistaken zero-sum view that more income for some must reduce incomes to others.
