Opinion
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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. -
Is Inflation Finally Here?
Opinion -Editorial -We experienced double-digit inflation between 1974 and 1981, hitting 14% in 1980. The U.S. has dramatically reduced inflation since then. -
Jacques Novicow, Sociologist of Peace and Freedom
Opinion -Editorial -Wars have been, perhaps, the worst man made plague for all of recorded history, causing untold numbers of deaths and massive physical destruction. -
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Closure Will Escalate Energy Poverty
Opinion -Editorial -The State of California has been unable to generate enough in-state power and needs to import expensive power from neighboring states. -
Biden’s ‘Made in America’ Tax Plan – Destroys Any Incentive for Anything to Be ‘Made in America’
Opinion -Editorial -Biden is going to MASSIVELY increase the GILTI tax. AND completely eradicate the off-setting FDII tax incentive. -
Inflation Is a Dangerous Way to Get Rid of Debt Burdens
Opinion -Editorial -Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2022, will include a budget deficit of $1.6 trillion, or almost one-third of planned government spending. -
Why the Internet Is Industrial Policy Not Free Market
Opinion -Editorial -Big Tech’s defense against any potential governmental accountability is wielding the myth that their success is a result of their free market merit, innovation, and competitiveness. -
Can We Afford This Spending?
Opinion -Editorial -Might the Federal Reserve be keeping interest rates artificially low? -
Monetary Inflation’s Game of Hide-and-Seek
Opinion -Editorial -The recently reported rise in the Consumer Price Index in April of this year to an annualized rate of 4.2 percent has set off alarm bells about the possible danger of serious and rising price inflation looking to the months ahead. -
Frank Knight and the Place of Principles in Economics and Politics
Opinion -Editorial -American politics is currently based on three premises: power, pragmatism, and plunder. -
Hayek’s Still Relevant Response to Today’s Paternalist Planners
Opinion -Editorial -The political paternalists and planners in our midst are heady with euphoric confidence that their time has come for a dramatic increase in the size and scope of government command and control. -
Biden’s Agenda of “Democratic” Paternalism and Planning
Opinion -Editorial -Joe Biden has spent his first 100 days spending trillions of dollars, and in his address before Congress last week, he announced that he wants to spend a lot more. -
Congress Versus Contractors
Opinion -Editorial -California legislators claimed that Uber and Lyft classified drivers as contractors to profit from paying them less. -
Scientific Survey Shows Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded
Opinion -Editorial -The survey, commissioned by Just Facts, reveals that the vast bulk of voters have embraced false and harmful dogmas that accord with their political views. -
Carl Menger’s Theory of Institutions and Market Processes
Opinion -Editorial -Menger drew attention to the fact that the social and economic institutions of human society are more often than not, not the creation of governments and central plans. -
Fed Funding Fantasy: EV Charging
Opinion -Editorial -The government buys the juice, plus snacks for the integral convenience store. -
The Hero Treatment?
Opinion -Editorial -While many Americans have worked from home during the pandemic, millions in retail, agriculture, transportation, and health care have had to work in person. -
Cities, Countries, and Economies were Built with Derivatives from Oil, Not by Electricity
Opinion -Editorial -Intermittent electricity CANNOT provide the oil derivatives that are the basis of thousands of products that have benefitted humanity for more than 200 years. -
Dangerous Monetary Manipulations and Fiscal Follies
Opinion -Editorial -Joe Biden seems to be hellbent on making his mark in history as one of the leading political paternalist and welfare statist presidents in recent times. -
New Perspectives on Inequality
Opinion -Editorial -For a century, economists explained the value of goods based on the labor required to make them. -
To End Budget Deficits, Restrict Political Pickpockets
Opinion -Editorial -It should not be too surprising that with this amount of government spending a sizable percentage of the U.S. population receives monies from Uncle Sam in one form or another.
