Don’t Want A Liquidity Trap? More Saving Is The Answer
Contrary to popular thinking, a liquidity trap does not emerge in response to consumers’ massive increase in their demand for money but comes as a result of…
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Argentina Votes For More Inflation, More Spending, And Economic Instability
Outgoing president Mauricio Macri did not offer much for the country, economically speaking…
Continue readingWHY A “CRYPTO-YUAN” WON’T THREATEN THE DOLLAR
A state-owned cryptocurrency is, in itself, a contradiction in terms…
Continue reading4 Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular
The question is, why socialism now? At a time when the American economy under Trump seems to be chugging along at a nice clip…
Continue readingAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong: We’re Not Working 80-Hour Weeks Now
It has become nearly commonplace for pundits and politicians to claim that Americans are working more than ever before…
Continue readingThe American Middle Class Isn’t Disappearing, But It’s Not All Good News
I’m not of the opinion that the American economy is doing amazingly well. However, I’m also not of the opinion that it is falling apart…
Continue readingThe Govt Spends More On National-Debt Interest Than You Think
This is money that the federal government says that it owes to itself…
Continue readingFight Against “Home Sharing” (Airbnb, HomeAway, Etc) Drives Up Price Of Short-Term Housing
Because most tourists are price-sensitive, we would likely witness a decline in “the major contribution tourism makes to the local economy”…
Continue readingCalifornia Has The Nation’s Worst Poverty Rate (Again)
Leaving California’s the best chance to increase one’s real income and have a life that doesn’t involve working long hours to afford a fixer-upper?
Continue readingTrump And The WTO: It’s Time To Dump Global “Free” Trade Bureaucrats
Let the WTO and all its agreements go already! We cannot salvage something that was built broken, and it’s time to…
Continue readingA Huge Empire Requires A Huge Government
The chaos arising from U.S. interventionism in Syria provides an excellent opportunity to explore the interventionist mind…
Continue readingAlasdair Macleod: Global Monetary Failure Is Becoming Inevitable
If history & reasoned economic theory are a guide, demands for credit by the state will terminate in the destruction of government currencies…
Continue readingWhy Austrian School Economists Have A Better Understanding Of Goods And Services
Economics is not primarily about physical reality, but about the use of it from the perspective of human wants…
Continue readingSouth Africa’s Race-Based Socialism
Twenty-five years since the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, the country remains home to some of the most market-invasive…
Continue readingWhy The Pursuit Of Profit Makes Us All Better Off
In most cultures, profit is seen as the outcome of exploitation, Hence, anyone who is seen as striving to make profits is regarded as…
Continue readingPolitics Drops Its Pretenses, Throwing Gasoline On The Fire
Can the increasing politicization of life in America be stopped, or even slowed?
Continue readingAlasdair Macleod: The Ghosts Of Failed Banks Have Returned
Recently, something unusual happened – the Fed escalated its repurchase agreements…
Continue readingThe Return Of Hyperinflation In Zimbabwe
When government intervenes in the market by setting the price of a commodity outside of natural market forces, hyperinflation follows…
Continue readingPOWELL LIED: QUANTITATIVE EASING IS BACK
If we look at what is being discussed, it has nothing to do with “organic” expansion, and it looks a lot like a new repurchase program…
Continue readingGovernment Meddling Is The Reason You’re “Underpaid”
People frequently allege that, under capitalism, people aren’t paid what they are worth to employers…
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