Opinion
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Post-Covid Policy Advice from Ludwig von Mises for Developing Countries
Opinion -Editorial -The policy paradigm that he lays out there is as applicable and relevant to lesser developed economies today as when he wrote this monograph in the mid-1940s -
Covid-19 Relief Bills to Cost $41,036 Per U.S. Household
Opinion -Editorial -The federal government has passed five laws to address the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of government-mandated lockdowns -
Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity
Opinion -Editorial -The fixation on equity is a loser for all concerned -
The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism
Opinion -Editorial -The news has been filled with additional information on the oppression and persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority in the western region of China known as Xinjiang -
Who Does A Minimum Wage Hike Really Help — The Poor, Or Those Who Push It Out Of Self-Interest?
Opinion -Editorial -Employers who already pay more than the increased federal minimum wage also gain from increasing the labor costs of rival employers in their region. -
GameStop: All the Bigs Will Do Anything to Stay Big – and Screw We the Littles
Opinion -Editorial -We all saw what happened last week with the GameStop short squeeze incident -
Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism
Opinion -Editorial -Joe Biden has come out of the starting gate with a slew of executive orders and planned legislation for the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass -
Carl Menger and the Sesquicentennial Founding of the Austrian School
Opinion -Editorial -At a time when a wide variety of misguided and wrong-headed economic ideas are swirling around the arenas of public policy, it is worth taking note of 2021 being the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian School of Economics -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board: Fraud Hidden in Plain Sight
Opinion -Editorial -This year has been wrought with financial turmoil for nearly all Americans -
Dr. Walter E. Williams, R.I.P.
Opinion -Editorial -Dr. Walter Williams, a distinguished economist and long-time friend and advisor to The Heartland Institute, died December 2. He was 83. -
Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
Opinion -Editorial -Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics? -
Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
Opinion -Editorial -A number of European governments are reinstituting degrees of new social and economic lockdowns in the name of slowing down a new wave of Coronavirus cases -
And the Election Winner is . . . Inflation in a Landslide
Opinion -Editorial -Regardless as to which candidate secures the Presidency on November 3rd (or some subsequent date), the administration must cope with unprecedented federal debt. -
Unmasking Paul Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Ayn Rand
Opinion -Editorial -He claimed that the U.S. has suffered from almost 9 million Coronavirus cases and experienced 230,000 deaths all because Ayn Rand and libertarians in general teach a philosophy of misplaced “freedom” -
Government Policies Have Worsened the Coronavirus Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -There is no doubt that 2020 has become a unique event in almost everyone’s life due to the Coronavirus and the response of almost all governments everywhere in the world -
The Pandemic or the Lockdown: Which Has Been Worse?
Opinion -Editorial -The COVID Tracker website reports 201,000 deaths through October 4 for a value of $2 trillion using the VSL -
Is the Ninth Circuit Court More Conservative and Constitutional Than the Supreme Court?
Opinion -Editorial -The Year of Our Lord 2020 – has been a long stretch of very bad road -
America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
Opinion -Editorial -The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update” -
Are Democrats Trying to Spark a Violent Revolution—or Just Accidentally Doing It?
Opinion -Editorial -These actions don’t merely represent protests run amok — America is now in the midst of a left-wing revolution -
Crisis, Leviathan, and COVID
Opinion -Editorial -The policies of the COVID-19 lockdown were not without historical precedent -
The Source of Our Prosperity
Opinion -Editorial -Our world is more prosperous than ever, or at least was before the economic disruption from COVID-19. -
Paul Krugman’s Ad Hominem Defense of Central Banking
Opinion -Editorial -Paul Krugman may hide behind rude and crude ad hominem attacks on those who do not share his views, but that does not prove his case. It only serves to harm his own reputation and legitimacy in the arena of public policy debate. -
California Loses Thousands of Jobs and Crucial Fuel as Marathon Martinez Refinery Goes Idle
Opinion -Editorial -California just experienced a catastrophic loss from the COIVD-19 impact on the economy, as one of its major refineries, Marathon Martinez, has just announced it will be idled indefinitely. -
Biden’s False Climate Promises
Opinion -Editorial -Biden’s multi-trillion dollar climate action plan is full of promises that the law says he cannot keep. Promising to do what you cannot do is a false promise. Here are some big-ticket examples.
