How Back-to-School Shopping Is like American Politics
As 2016's campaign unpleasantness has accelerated, many Americans were going through another often-unpleasant experience: back-to-school shopping.
Taxes and Spending
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Dear Gary Johnson, There Is No “Free-Market” Carbon Tax
Calling an arbitrary government-imposed penalty on carbon a "market cost" is a disingenuous as not calling such a plan a "tax."
We Can’t Live on Borrowed Time and Borrowed Money Forever
It is a time of fiscal hedonism, engineered and encouraged by governments and their central banks, and sold to us as banal public policy and tinkering.
The Fallacy of the ‘Third Way’
American Amnesia is a work of propaganda, not of scholarly inquiry. It is simply an un-serious rehashing of old arguments in favor of interventionism.
Never a Dull Moment
[ From the Introduction by Justin Raimondo.] Murray Rothbard was a true polymath. He wasn’t just the number one theoretician of the modern libertarian movement — author of the monumental Man, Economy, and State; Conceived in Liberty, a four...
The Pharma-Fed Doctor
It is true that perks from pharma companies influence doctors. But pharma dollars are nothing compared to the subsidies doled out by governments.
Why We Need Profits
Monetary profit is not the only kind of profit, but in a complex world, monetary profit is essential in building sustainable economies.
Decentralize the Nuclear Arsenals
With the American state broke and deeply in debt, it is just a matter of time until nuclear proliferation spreads to Japan, Germany, and South Korea.
The Problem With Socialism
My hope is that my new book, The Problem with Socialism, will be viewed as a companion to Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson.
Ireland’s Bogus 26% GDP Boost
National income statistics are becoming meaningless, not because of globalization, tax avoidance, or technology, but by their exultation by economists.
