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Life, Liberty, Property #151: Can Warsh Lead Us Out of the Inflation Trap?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Markets are indicating strong optimism about the U.S. dollar. An article at Unleash Prosperity’s Hotline argues new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin “Warsh Is Slaying Inflation Already.” -
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Life, Liberty, Property #150: Rhode Island Starts Tax Hike Death Spiral
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Rhode Island just enacted a tax increase that will chase the highest-earning households out of the state and ensure revenue shortfalls as long as it remains in place. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #149: Federal Reserve Assumptions Have to Change
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Tying the money supply to something real such as gold would solve the inflation and economic boom-bust cycles. The same is true of allowing the market to create money. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #148: The Bill of Rights and the Rise of Soft Despotism
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #147: Consumer Confidence Declines, Credit-Card Debt Rises
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -U.S. consumer confidence declined in May in the wake of a sharp rise in inflation expectations and worries about a possible recession. ... -
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Life, Liberty, Property #146: Are Markets Calling for an Interest Rate Hike?
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -As Kevin Warsh takes over as chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), investors and analysts are expressing much worry about interest rates.... -
Life, Liberty, Property #145: U.S. Economy Is ‘Bad’ or ‘Terrible,’ Under-30s Say
Opinion -Young adults across the United States overwhelmingly say that the U.S. economy is currently “bad” or “terrible,” and “we’re seeing the consequences all over America.” -
Life, Liberty, Property #144: Debt-to-GDP Ratio Tops 100 Percent
Opinion -The federal debt crossed an ominous threshold last week, rising over 100 percent of national gross domestic product ... -
Life, Liberty, Property #143: GAO Confirms Enormous Entitlement Fraud
Opinion -Federal government programs paid out hundreds of billions of dollars of undeserved benefits to criminal organizations and other opportunists over just five years. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #142: Trump Administration Appoints Health Care Affordability Czar
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #141: Tremors in Private-Credit Market Confirm Fed’s Economic Damage
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Rising woes in the world of private credit are bringing new attention to investment risks. Attention to risk is always a good thing. -
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Life, Liberty, Property #140: Surprising Support for Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Policy
Opinion -budget-tax-news, Editorial -Libertarians and business interests have been generally aligned with the pro-birthright position but somewhat divided on the issue. -
What Trumpnomics 1.0 Was and What 2.0 Could Be
Opinion -Trumpnomics is it's own unique mix of economics values. Darren Brady Nelson breaks down how this has worked for the United States. -
Freedom Requires Resisting Coronavirus Pessimism
Opinion -If there is a chance to pull society away from the social and economic abyss towards which it is moving, we must take it. -
Did the Lockdown Save Lives?
Opinion -Whether school closings and stay-at-home orders slow an outbreak is an important and really challenging research question. This question must be answered before we compare economic costs and health benefits. -
The Pandemic vs. the Shutdown: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Opinion -The long-term economic effects of the COVID-19 shutdown will be felt for years to come. -
China Virus Bailout Coin – Shouldn’t Go to Chinese Companies
Opinion -There has been much back-and-forthing over who should and shouldn’t get money from the CARES Act. -
Behold: An Avalanche of Headlines Chronicling Google’s Systemic Theft
Opinion -Google has government rig the private sector to its advantage. And it bigfoot crushes competitors. And failing that – it buys them. -
California’s Forecasted Budget Deficit Decades in the Making
Opinion -For decades, the state that has been dominated by one-party that has been laying the foundation for a budget catastrophe. -
The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
Opinion -Efforts to get us to accept and even support more of this government intrusion and data mining into our private affairs is one of the great dangers facing us in the coronavirus crisis. -
An “Austrian” Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery
Opinion -The collectivism virus need not destroy us, if we immunize ourselves with the philosophy of liberty and market liberalism. -
Countering Pritzker’s Endless ‘Emergency’ Power Grab in Court
Opinion -The candor is refreshing. It is rare to see a public official openly resting upon the justification of Napoleon, the despot in George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm: "Some pigs are more equal than others." -
Proposed Violence Against Women Act Revisions Could Cost States Billions in Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -Legislators in many states are considering bills that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on the state level, jeopardizing the solvency of state Unemployment Insurance trust funds -
Profile: ‘CAFE’ Program Provides Free-Enterprise Perspective to University Students
Opinion -The Colloquium for the Advancement of Free-Enterprise Education at the University of Texas-Dallas teaches students about the foundations and history of the nation's economic system
