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Keynesian orthodoxy claims that cuts in government spending mean less “aggregate demand,” and less “aggregate demand” leads ...
Japan's economy is caught between inflationary monetary policy and powerful agricultural interests. There is no easy way out.
The standard line for passenger rail travel in the US is that we need a government-subsidized entity like Amtrak because ...
According to Statista, there were 66 billionaires in the US in 1990. That number grew to 748 in 2023. Over the same period, ...
In a candid interview, economist Steve Hanke calls the Trump–Putin Alaska summit “a photo-op,” arguing Russia already holds the upper hand in Ukraine. He ...
According to the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, prices rose by 2.7 percent over the past year, and by 3.1 percent when the “volatile” food and housing ...
Leftist historians claim that mainstream historic accounts of the Reconstruction Era fail to give black freedmen enough credit for their postwar rebuilding ...
Libertarians who say that certain tax deductions and credits are loopholes that need to be closed argue that these loopholes distort the tax code, are inefficient, subsidize high-income taxpayers, ...
What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling ...
Zohran Mamdani, a self-identified democratic socialist, was asked directly whether “billionaires have a right to exist” and ...
The Federal Reserve has what the New York Times called its “biggest shindig” of the year at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week.
In this article, Puster, Hülsmann, and Hoppe explain the reasons for their resignation from the Scientific Advisory Board of ...