If you thought federal deficits and spending would go back to normal after the covid panic, you were wrong. If anything, deficits are now on track to be bigger than the covid years.
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Trump’s Economic Policies: The Good, The Bad, and the...
President-elect Trump has promised changes in economic policies. How well they work and how they will affect us remains to be seen. Here is a look at proposals that have promise—and proposals that are likely to cause harm.
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The US Is Now on Track for a $3.5 Trillion Deficit in...
With the two-month total at over $620 billion, the year-end total is likely to be over $3.5 trillion by the end of the year. That would make the next annual deficit even larger than 2020’s.
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Slavery—Cronyism, Opportunity Cost, & Deadweight Loss
A modern misconception of antebellum slavery is that it “built the country.” Actually, the institution of slavery, economically speaking, was a deadweight loss to the US economy.
Modern academics are relentless in trying to find any nuances they can from the works of Karl Marx, but they miss the larger issues with his work. Marx was alive and active when the marginalists logically took apart his value theory, but hope springs eternal for Marx‘s supporters.
Political activists in corporate America invented the “key performance indicators” (KPIs) which make us less productive and are essentially God‘s gift to bureaucracy.
Another national election has come and gone. Unfortunately, though, opposition to the status quo is not the same thing as support for peace, freedom, or free markets.
Washington has wielded the sanctions weapon against nearly a third of all nations on earth. It is time to rethink these policies, and one hopes the incoming Trump administration will do just that and change course.
Ready and generous deficit financing is key to state power. This was most recently evident in the gigantic deficits of the covid financial and economic crisis and the vast subsidies of its aftermath, which led, as we have said, to peak Fed in March 2022.
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Selections from Our Enemy, the State: Supports Summit...
The theme that connected all of the weekend’s talks at the 2024 Supports Summit was “Our Enemy, the State.” It was a gathering of the "remnant," those who recognize that the government is our common enemy. These are selections from several of the talks.
Ruchir Sharma, a non-Austrian, gets it right. He lends strong support to the Austrian position that because competition moves resources to where they best fulfill consumer demand, the government must not interfere with this process by bailing out businesses that fail.
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Provoked: The Long Train of Abuses that Culminated in...
While the Washington political establishment demonizes Russians for the invasion of Ukraine, our political elites should look in the mirror. Washington played a major role in provoking this conflict in its attempt to restart the Cold War.
Mises Institute President Tom DiLorenzo joins Ryan McMaken to look at the many ways that the taxes, known as "tariffs," destroy wealth and empower the state.
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Who Ultimately Pays the Cost of Protective Tariffs?
It is a benefit of sound economic theory that it proves very useful in the refutation of popular fallacies and misconceptions about the workings of the market economy.