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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon did the same thing—and...
Lately, James Lindsay has burned much of his credibility in attacking largely non-interventionist right-wingers as “Woke Right.”
The Fed is now hemmed in by a rising risk of stagflation. It doesn‘t know where the economy is headed, or is unwilling to...
One of the outcomes of the American Civil War was the movement toward centralization of political power in Washington. The Reconstruction regime imposed upon...
It’s Ludwig von Mises’s 143rd birthday! On the 100th anniversary of his birth (1981), George Reisman penned this tribute honoring Mises’s brilliance, courage, and...
Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has...
When people speak of “old school economics,” they generally mean the application of economic thinking that involves what we might call “common sense.” That...
While F.A. Hayek contributed much to the Austrian School of Economics, he also supported the establishment of the welfare state, believing that it was...
The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US...
It is understood that Marx’s theories stand entirely upon his Labor Theory of Value. If that theory is discredited, so is the scenario that...
The Perfect Market Hypothesis claims that all movements in the market can be considered as random, as market players and prices adjust immediately to...