In Government-Regulated Healthcare, There Is No Competition Like No Competition
Progressives are quick to blame escalating healthcare costs on free markets, yet it's government rules and policies that are responsible.
Progressives are quick to blame escalating healthcare costs on free markets, yet it's government rules and policies that are responsible.
As inflation advances and the economy slowly implodes, we also learn valuable lessons.
Among Mises's contributions was his doctrine of consumer sovereignty in a free market.
The Ponzi game known as selling US government debt is nearing its end. The seller is running out of suckers.
At a time when inflation once again ravages the dollar, we recall Murray Rothbard's wisdom in his article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar."
While Elon Musk says he will bring free speech back to Twitter, the forces of statism will not be still. The jury is out on how successful Musk's experiment will be.
More than forty years ago, California voters enthusiastically passed Proposition 13, which limited property tax hikes. Politicians have been lying about it ever since.
Government economists "seasonally adjust" data in order to better respond with policy recommendations to deal with business cycles. The problem is that government causes the cycles.
Jeff joins Chris Casey of WindRock Wealth Management for a deep analysis of next week's punishing midterm elections.
Florida's government promotes a "shared adversity" plan in which individuals and organizations have distant environmental problems imposed upon them.
While we speak of a desire for honest money, the larger problem is that the Federal Reserve System cannot coexist with an honest money regime.
As the inevitable economic downturn becomes more evident, the Fed will attempt to stop deflation. But what this economy needs is a good dose of it.
How big of a red wave is on the horizon, and how much does it really matter?
The Gold Standard Restoration Act seeks to once again tie the US dollar to gold.
Even with near-record inflation, the US dollar still has gained strength relative to other currencies. This does not mean that the Fed has been acting responsibly.
Progressives like Robert Reich now claim that there is no inflation, just businesses arbitrarily raising prices so they can increase profits. Such claims do not pass the test of economic logic.
President Biden's nonsolution of partial "debt forgiveness" is in limbo, but the slow financial destruction that massive student loan debt is unleashing continues.
In a free market, short-term and long-term rates would move toward convergence. Fed interference with interest rates ensures that won't happen.
Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful.
War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer.