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The Federal Reserve has welcomed the New Year by more of the same. As government spending continues to explode, the Fed enables it with...
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The Federal Reserve has welcomed the New Year by more of the same. As government spending continues to explode, the Fed enables it with...
Bob looks at the misconceptions and misuses of GDP accounting, explaining why this widely accepted metric often paints a misleading picture of economic health.
Americans and Cubans have been deprived of trade and travel. Who benefits?
Since the end of the 19th Century, much of US history has been marred by meddling in the affairs of other nations. From William...
The boom-and-bust cycles are not natural to a market economy, contra Keynes. Instead, government through monetary manipulation creates them—and then politicians blame markets themselves....
Popular economic thinking holds that consumer spending is the most important driver of the economy. Actually, demand can’t exist without something first being supplied....
On this week’s episode, Mark recaps Professor Guido Hülsmann’s recent lecture on the cultural impact of the paper dollar. Hülsmann explains how an ever-inflationary...
While Hillary Clinton’s call to have Trump supporters “deprogrammed” has been met with snickers, her attitude is in line with most of this country’s governing...
Recently Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debated the merits of anarchism at the Soho Forum. Bob critiques Brook’s opening statement. The Soho Forum...