The pandemic has called into question one of the most fundamental assumptions of economics. Read the Full Article here: >Tyler Cowen - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist...
At the start of the Biden era, America is being torn apart by more allegations of treason than at any time since the Civil War. Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” And few things...
I hate waiting at traffic lights. There’s a solution: traffic circles, or roundabouts. Traffic circles terrified me when I first confronted them in Europe. A movie, “National Lampoon’s European Vacation,” captured my experience when it portrayed Chevy Chase driving in London, unable to exit a rotary all day. Besides...
For four decades, from the mid-1930s to the 1970s, Keynesian economics almost monopolized economic policy in the United States and around the world. The “new economics,” as it was called, was going to assure mankind economic stability, full employment, and material prosperity—all through wise government...
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”-Albert Einstein Two of our favorite TV shows are The Twilight Zone and Hogan’s Heroes. These shows provide lessons as we tentatively emerge from the herd stupidity (see Einstein’s quote) that...
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but according to the quote erroneously attributed to Mark Twain, it rhymes. My preferred objection to that saying comes from two of financial history’s greatest heroes, Rondo Cameron and Larry Neal; in their A Concise Economic History of the World, they...
First published in 2005 this op-ed is still relevant today. Memorial Day is a solemn and sad occasion honoring the American soldiers who gave their lives in war. But it is also a hallowed day — because the values those men fought to defend form the...
F.A. Hayek‘s essay ‘Why I Am Not a Conservative‘ is often misremembered as a defensive claim that says conservatives are invested in traditions while liberals want to move forward, and since Hayek considers himself a liberal, he does not want to be mistaken for a...
The slogan People over Profits once again is being heard in Washington and elsewhere in the country. This time, however, the sloganeering doesn’t come from Jane Fonda or Bernie Sanders (although both have used that mantra for many years) but rather from business sources themselves. From...