Now’s a good time to read (or reread) Gary Chartier’s 2019 article “The Case for Sanctions Fails at Every Turn.”
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"The idea that deficits don't matter as long as you have your own currency is just wrong. In a world of scarce resources, someone always pays.”- N. Gregory Mankiw Some are calling recent political events America’s “socialist moment," as many libertarians have been...
I am far from your typical, mainstream economist. Rather than focus on the broad aggregates that the state publishes in an effort to convince us that things are “just fine,” I choose to observe economic conditions at the most micro of levels. While my colleagues pour...
We’ve all seen the memes: “You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher or a farmer. That wealth comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work.” The other end of the spectrum is the slogan:...
