Now would be a great time to stop pretending that the financial sector is “free market” or that price inflation and cost-of-living surges are somehow all…
Politics
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Remember Lady Justice, who wears a blindfold and holds the scales? She is a state creation, too, and when it comes to state…
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The Federal Reserve is no more “private” than the Environmental Protection Agency, and through its special government status, the Fed inflicts many economic…
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One of the principles of good public policy is to focus efforts on understanding social problems and searching for effective responses where those…
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According to popular thinking, the government’s definition of money is of a flexible nature. Sometimes it could be M1, and at other times…
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Professor Per Bylund of Oklahoma State University, author of How to Think About the Economy joins Jeff and Bob to dissect how economics…
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The recent inflationary episodes in the USA have led to the emergence of several different explanations, ranging from overexpansion of the money supply…
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The move from feudalism to the relatively free capitalist societies occurred slowly, beginning with the emergence of the city-states in Italy in Medieval…
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The Moral Foundations of Civil Societyby William RöpkeTransaction Publishers, (1948) 1996; xxxvii + 235 pp. In an earlier column, I discussed Wendell Berry’s…
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For all of the political “reforms” being tossed about, the truth is that government is slowly strangling the life out of our society.…