Unemployment
The End of Artificial Employment
AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.
The Causes and Cures for Gen Z’s Economic Illness
Dr. Jeffery L. Degner explains how an “inflation culture” reshapes marriage, adulthood, and family life for Gen Z and contrasts it with a path of courageous independence, sound saving, and earlier family formation.
Does AI lead to Socialism?
The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other fear is that it will bring about socialism. Neither is true.
Yes, Heather Cox Richardson Is Economically Illiterate – And Proud of It
History Professor Heather Cox Richardson has grown very wealthy using her writings to attack the creation of wealth itself. While her columns are popular, they also are filled with economic illiteracy.
Neo-Luddite Hokum from Conservatives Strikes Again
AI doomerism and neo-Luddite sentiments have become increasingly prevalent in recent discourse.
Does a Fall in Unemployment Lead to Stronger Economic Growth?
Ever since the Great Depression, most economists have claimed that the key to increasing economic growth is to lower unemployment. However, increasing the savings rate and building a capital structure are the keys to growth—and lower unemployment.
Book Review: 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Greg Kaza reviews Ben Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19. The book is a candid yet self-justifying defense of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy that refuses to acknowledge how stimulus has driven inflation.
Tariffs Mean Lost Jobs
The goalposts are continually changing (more like fallacy-hopping), but one would-be goal of tariffs needs to be confronted—tariffs for domestic job protection.
Congress Should Abolish the Fed for Failing to Achieve Its Mandates
Following World War II, Congress imposed mandates on the Federal Reserve in the areas of employment, inflation, and interest rates. Not surprisingly, the Fed has failed in all three areas. It is time to recognize failure and abolish the Fed altogether.