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April 24, 2020
April 24, 2020. Alcohol restrictions can be justified by governments for the same reason coronavirus lockdowns are needed. ...
April 23, 2020
April 23, 2020. And just like El Dorado, its wealth is entirely mythical. ...
April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020. What can be said about all these disparate attempts (religious, historical, environmental, racial, political correctness, academic) to quell free speech? ...
April 22, 2020
April 22, 2020. The horrors being meted out against the American people can be traced back, in a direct line, to the horrors meted out in Nazi laboratories. ...
April 21, 2020
April 21, 2020. The world’s oldest profession is in trouble. ...
April 21, 2020
April 21, 2020. The last thing politicians care about right now is the value of the currency. And history tells us that inflation is almost always the preferred tool of a government in crisis. ...
April 21, 2020
April 21, 2020. There’s a growing trend now where state governments are proposing new legislation that would RETROACTIVELY force insurance companies to protect their policyholders against Covid. ...
April 20, 2020
April 20, 2020. It is easy to see the hypocrisy in licensing hair braiders. It takes far greater insight to be able to apply these considerations to medical doctors. ...
April 20, 2020
April 20, 2020. Knowledge is power. So the elite guard it jealously. ...
April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020. The fable that so many more Americans really believed in liberty felt very good. ...
April 17, 2020
April 17, 2020. Well that escalated quickly. Now we are talking about raiding homes and seizing family members who are sick. ...
April 16, 2020
April 16, 2020. We will see a tidal wave new money flooding into an economy where fewer goods and services are being produced. ...
April 15, 2020
April 15, 2020. There was never a "United" USA. The fault lines of politics have always fallen along eleven main regions. ...
April 14, 2020
April 14, 2020. The prevailing narrative right now is that we’re out of the woods and the economy is about to come roaring back. ...
April 14, 2020
April 14, 2020. It’s a concerted campaign to shift consumers towards a digital mode of commerce that can easily be monitored, tracked, tabulated, mined for data, hacked, hijacked and confiscated when convenient. ...
April 13, 2020
April 13, 2020. But in the past, this ratio has always returned to more traditional levels. Always. Even when the world was facing Adolf Hitler or the Great Depression. ...
April 10, 2020
April 10, 2020. At this point in the pandemic it’s pretty clear that plenty of governments are absolutely not letting this crisis go to waste. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening around the world. ...
April 09, 2020
April 9, 2020. Every time I hear some young person moaning about the high price of education, I always ask, “How many free online classes have you taken?” ...
April 09, 2020
April 9, 2020. A recent study by MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Boston University found that consumers care far more about reviews and prices than government-mandated credentials. ...
April 08, 2020
April 8, 2020. What makes people rich and powerful over the next few years might have less to do with spreading a product globally, and more to do with securing a product or service locally. ...
April 07, 2020
April 7, 2020. Indeed, the police state in which Jesus lived and its striking similarities to modern-day America are beyond troubling. ...
April 07, 2020
April 7, 2020. Wells Fargo (of course it had to be Wells Fargo…) announced yesterday on Twitter that they had already “reached lending capacity” for small businesses under this program, and they subsequently took down the application form. ...
April 06, 2020
April 6, 2020. The global food supply chain is incredibly complex and not especially resilient; I’ve seen this firsthand over the past few years from running a large agriculture business. ...
April 03, 2020
April 3, 2020. This is essentially a nationwide “red flag law.” The government can deny or revoke a license if they arbitrarily deem you to be a problem. ...
April 02, 2020
April 2, 2020. Just like Florence in the 1300s, there are dozens of countries that were already in severe financial hardship going into this pandemic. ...
April 01, 2020
April 1, 2020. Travel too far down that slippery slope, and there will be no turning back. ...
April 01, 2020
April 1, 2020. But this bailout is just 2 ½ months! That’s nothing. It implies that the government thinks everything will be back to normal by mid-June. ...
March 30, 2020
March 30, 2020. The government is essentially telling banks to make loans to everyone, with no personal guarantee, no recourse, and no collateral… and to maintain these loans on their books as risk-free. And even when these loans default, to continue reportin ...
March 27, 2020
March 27, 2020. We had to check to make sure this one wasn’t fake news. It’s real. ...
March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020. Amazing. I was half expecting her to waive her hand and say, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…” ...
March 25, 2020
March 25, 2020. Forced homeschooling reveals the flaws in public education, and shows parents a better way to educate and raise their children. ...
March 24, 2020
March 24, 2020 You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose– with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. ...
March 24, 2020
March 24, 2020. My take is that we’re still early in this crisis. And as the old saying goes, the wise man does in the beginning what the fool does in the end. ...
March 20, 2020
March 20, 2020 Whatever laws and regulations that can be abandoned during a crisis should probably never have been on the books in the first place. ...
March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020. There’s $250 trillion in global debt right now. Total bank capital worldwide is less than $10 trillion. ...
March 18, 2020
March 18, 2020. The tactics and difficulties outlined in the “fictional training scenario” are all too real, beginning with martial law. ...
April 04, 2016
“By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.” – Frédéric Bastiat. It remains one of the most powerful metaphors in economics. In 1850 Frédéric Bastiat gave the world the story of the broken window. The son of a s ...
April 01, 2016
Once in a while in our lives we come across a book or an article, perhaps an interview, that causes us to pause and really consider our positions on a particular topic, to question our conclusions and perhaps even adjust our way of looking at and thinking about ...
March 16, 2016
“Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall.” That’s a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago. ...
March 10, 2016
Human beings have come up with some crazy ideas for money and finance over the years. Conch shells. Beads. Animal skins. Salt. Rice. All of these were used as a form of money at one time or another. But the strangest by far has got to be the Rai Stones of Yap I ...
March 07, 2016
Canada plans to experiment with giving people unconditional free money … Finland and the Netherlands have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance regardless of working status, and now Ontario, Canada is onboard. – Tech Insi ...
March 04, 2016
The missing piece from the economic recovery has finally materialized. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is now higher than it was before the recession that began at the end of 2007, according to new data published by Sentier Research. –Yahoo ...
March 03, 2016
In the middle of a heated battle against my jetlag yesterday, I finally decided to exercise the nuclear option and turn on CNBC in order to stay awake. I figured someone would say something completely ridiculous, and it would get my blood boiling enough to powe ...
March 03, 2016
“Europe’s deep economic malaise is the result of “deliberate” policy choices made by EU elites, according to the former governor of the Bank of England.” –UK Telegraph ...
March 02, 2016
UN Votes Wednesday on Tough New North Korea Sanctions … The U.N. Security Council votes Wednesday on a resolution that would impose the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades. –AP ...
March 01, 2016
Sustainability holds key in green quest for China … With the Chinese economy slowing down, it is possible to predict that the country’s policymakers would still have their eyes trained on economic development for a not-so-bad GDP growth, rather than sus ...
February 29, 2016
Global finance officials promise to shore up sagging growth … Finance officials of the world’s biggest economies promised Saturday to use “all tools” to shore up sagging global growth and to avoid devaluing their currencies to boost exports ...
February 28, 2016
Bill Anderson is a professor of economics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. His Ph.D. in economics is from Auburn University, and he serves as an associate scholar with the Mises Institute. He has published numerous articles and papers on ec ...
February 26, 2016
‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked … Dame Janet Smith report finds ‘climate of fear’ at BBC ‘Macho culture’ led employees to keep quiet … She concluded that “an atmosphere of fear still exists today ...
February 25, 2016
Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets … Germans are losing faith in their media ...
