Opinion
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Fines are not Taxes
Opinion -Editorial -Fines should not be used as a substitute for taxes. -
Fake ‘Infrastructure’ Week: We Really Need to Beat China to 5G Wireless
Opinion -Editorial -We need to decrease - not increase - our reliance on Chinese products, while investing in infrastructure to remain technologically superior. -
China Begins to Realize Cronyism and Big Tech Do Way More Harm Than Good
Opinion -Editorial -China has reigned in Big Tech. We should do the same to avoid monopoly. -
America’s Fiscal History: From Liberty to Paternalism
Opinion -Editorial -America is at risk of a total societal transformation highlighted by trading individual liberty for social collectivization. -
There’s a Government Hall of Fame – But Government Is AWFUL at Everything
Opinion -Editorial -The latest infrastructure bill will give government significantly greater power over our society, while continuing to cripple us economically. -
Biden’s Sell-Out to Radical Leftism Will Replicate the 2008 Housing Crisis
Opinion -Editorial -The next housing crisis is almost upon us. -
Economic Freedom and Children’s Prosperity
Opinion -Editorial -Economic freedom leads to more opportunity for income mobility. -
Government Corrupts Everything – And Drives Everyone Non-Rich Out of the System
Opinion -Editorial -Government intervention continues to strangle the economy. -
Political Rhetoric Hides the Reality of Peaceful Production vs. Plunder
Opinion -Editorial -Government intervention decreases individual liberty and economic freedom. -
Reverse Globalism: We Must Re-In-Source and Rethink Everything
Opinion -Editorial -Globalism must be subordinated to the national interest. -
Big Tech: Not All Business is Good Business
Opinion -Editorial -Big Tech = Corporatism = Fascism. -
Jerome Powell’s Quest for Economic Stability is Destabilizing
Opinion -Editorial -When the Fed chairman cautiously suggests that the American central bankers are not sure what they are going to do, it is because they cannot do what they say they want to do. -
DC Is Ensuring Only Billionaires Can Get a Loan – In the Name of ‘Helping the Little Guy’
Opinion -Editorial -Only Big Businesses can afford the direct and indirect costs of Big Government – while they crush the rest of us. -
Both ‘Infrastructure’ Bills Are Atrocious. Republicans Voting ‘Yay’ Should Be Embarrassed
Opinion -Editorial -Just about nothing US infrastructure has anything to do with DC. -
Infrastructure Bill as Political Plunder and Social Engineering
Opinion -Editorial -Politicians love to spend other people’s money, especially when it enables them to use it to get campaign contributions and election-day votes from those who can keep them in office -
Shower Freedom Goes Down the Drain
Opinion -Editorial -Economists define efficiency in terms of consumer preferences. Consumer sovereignty is the basis on which we judge the economy’s performance. -
Edwin Cannan: An Economist Who Protested against Big Government
Opinion -Editorial -Unfortunately, numerous economic fallacies and misconceptions seem to never die; they just return in slightly different forms at later dates. -
More Government Debt as Far as the Fiscal Eye Can See
Opinion -Editorial -The U.S. government will, again, face an official debt limit starting on August 1, 2021, unless Congress once more raises the limit on what Uncle Sam can borrow. -
Defense IG to Congress: Take Your Amazon Cronyism Oversight and Shove It
Opinion -Editorial -How has Amazon Retail afforded the ability to lose money for decades - and still murder global retail? By running other businesses that make money - and using that money to subsidize Amazon Retail. -
Appreciating F. A. Hayek’s Insights on Money and the Business Cycle
Opinion -Editorial -Fears are once again afoot that a new period of rising price inflation is upon us, and with justifiable cause. -
State and Local Barriers to Entrepreneurship
Opinion -Editorial -Large businesses have more political influence and can reduce the burden of new regulations on themselves or obtain exemptions to rules. -
Progressives Blame F. A. Hayek for Everything They Dislike
Opinion -Editorial -Traditions and Moral Heritage Do Matter -
The Economics of Paying Ransom
Opinion -Editorial -Collective action poses the second challenge. Businesses collectively have an interest in not rewarding cybercrime, yet individual businesses suffer these attacks. -
Federal ‘Infrastructure’? State-Local Government and Crony Bail Outs and Slush Funds
Opinion -Editorial -We have for many decades paid loads and LOADS of state and local government taxes.
