Intellectual property laws provide another example of how government stifles innovation and competition. Original Article: Bye Bye Willie: The Political Rent-Seeker
While the “Great Reset” involves an unholy alliance between governments and big businesses, implementing its policies is impossible without central banks suppressing interest rates. Now that rates are...
One doesn’t need to search modern economic literature to take on the MMT crowd. Just read Bastiat. Original Article: Bastiat versus MMT
In War Guilt in the Middle East (1967) Murray Rothbard observes that libertarians are very clear on the principles of liberty, but less so on the details of specific...
Most mainstream economists believe the application of quantitative methods on historical data can explain the state of the economy. Others such as Ludwig von Mises held that...
The government, federal or otherwise, has no business model because it is not a business. We know this at the outset because government does not compete in...
To prevent public debt from soaring in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2009, Germany has enshrined a “debt brake” in its constitution. The debt...
Mark talks about the Fed’s Reverse Repo Operations, which explain the conundrum of the Fed’s “tight” monetary policy and new record highs in the stock market. It...
In his 1927 book Liberalism, the radical classical liberal and economist Ludwig von Mises took a strict and expansive view in favor of secession. Specifically, he noted...
Adam Smith, in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, stipulates the guiding principles of classical economic orthodoxy, establishing guiding principles that will guide the English economic...