[Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from Thomas DiLorenzo's book The Problem with Socialism] When it comes to something as important as healthcare, the last thing anyone should want is for the entire system to become a government-run monopoly. [...] In fact,...
Economics
The Conservative Attack on Market Freedom
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 14, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
I haven't run an empirical study on the number of articles published, but it sure seems like conservatives are writing more articles than usual condemning economic freedom, and the people who advocate for it. This would make some sense in the Age of Trump when the the...
Central Bank Issues Stunning Warning: “If The Entire System Collapses, Gold Will Be Needed To Start Over”
by The Free Thought Project | Oct 14, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
(ZH) It’s not just “tinfoil blogs” who (for the past 11 years) have been warning that a monetary reset is inevitable and the only viable fallback option once trust and faith in fiat is lost, is a gold standard (something which even Mark Carney hinted at recently):...
The Letter That CEOs Ought to Be Writing
by Laurence Vance | Oct 11, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
The mass shootings in August at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, prompted the CEOs of more than a hundred large and small corporations to write a letter to the members of the U.S. Senate about “a public health crisis that demands urgent...
How the Government Perverts the Economic Reward System
by Steve Anthony | Oct 10, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
How do some people figure out ways to make lots of money? And what is the reason that someone gets paid for his work? Earning money is all about the ability to solve problems. It can be as simple as solving the problem of a dirty floor. You can create value for...
How Cronyism Created New York City’s Taxi Medallion Bubble
by Daniel Kowalski | Oct 10, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
If one wanted to study the difference between an industry that exists in a very free market and its exact counterpart in a system of extreme government regulation, then you don’t need to look further than the New York City taxi industry. New York City yellow cabs...
Federal Reserve’s Latest Bailouts More Proof Bad Times Ahead
by Ron Paul | Oct 8, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
Since September 17, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing (repo) market, the first such intervention since 2009. The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as 75 billion dollars a day into the repo...
How Rent Control Threatens the American Dream
by Ben Wilterdink | Oct 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
There is a very real shortage of affordable housing across America’s most dynamic areas, but rent control is an ineffective solution to this problem. It’s no secret that many parts of the country are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Homelessness is...