Top News The Greatest Thing the Roman Empire Ever Did Was Go Away by February 24, 2021 by February 24, 2021 Review of Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019)… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News Why Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuits Are Garbage by February 24, 2021 by February 24, 2021 Dominion Voting Systems is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion. This comes in the wake of other Dominion lawsuits against… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News Why “Stakeholder Capitalism” Is a Disaster for Entrepreneurs by February 24, 2021 by February 24, 2021 During the 1990s there was a legal and philosophical idea, championed by Milton Friedman among others, that a corporation exists to serve… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News Prohibition’s Repeal: What Made FDR Popular by February 24, 2021 by February 24, 2021 As Mark Thornton has shown, the big legislative change that FDR made at the start of his presidency, the decision that affected… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News When Is Short Selling Fraudulent? by February 24, 2021 by February 24, 2021 Amid the controversy over GameStop, many cynics argued that something sinister was clearly afoot because the hedge funds had shorted 138 percent of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News Almost a Year Later, There’s Still No Evidence Showing Governments Can Control the Spread of Covid-19 by February 23, 2021 by February 23, 2021 As we approach the one-year anniversary of fifteen days to flatten the curve, we have yet to acquire any data suggesting that… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News The Economics and Ethics of Government Default, Part I by February 23, 2021 by February 23, 2021 Introduction The problem of government deficit spending and the resulting public debt is a challenge to most modern economies. A few states,… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News Mauricio Miller: Entrepreneurship as the Path Upwards From Anywhere, for Anyone by February 23, 2021 by February 23, 2021 Entrepreneurship is the best pathway for all people out of unsatisfactory economic circumstances. Mauricio Miller, who arrived in the US as a… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News No, Drops in Money Velocity Don’t Offset Money Printing by February 23, 2021 by February 23, 2021 At the end of January, the yearly growth rate of our measure of US money supply (AMS) closed at 76.7 percent, against… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Top News The High Cost of Using the Minimum Wage as a Form of Welfare by February 23, 2021 by February 23, 2021 Social activists now regard the minimum wage as another welfare program that can reduce the costs of programs like Medicaid and food… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
