American journalist & writer (1894–1993)
“To be rather than to seem” is a great guiding principle for effective public policy. Many policies started with good intentions don’t bring about the desired outcomes. Policymakers guided by…
Inflation is a deeply regressive tax, impacting all Americans, especially low-income households. While we’re all paying the tax, none of us were allowed to vote on it. Bureaucrats being empowered…
Biden's claim that printing another $1.2 trillion for his "Build Back Better" scheme will provide relief for families struggling with higher gas and grocery bills is like the arsonist saying…
"The bottleneck in California (caused by that state’s stringent emissions laws) led directly to bottlenecks at every other port in America."
In 1946, a journalist knew economics. That journalist was Henry Hazlitt, one of the 20th century’s most influential economic thinkers. That year was when he published a book called Economics…
Typically, “saving American jobs” is the reason given for implementing protectionist trade measures, i.e., tariffs and quotas. The argument goes something like this: foreign producers of a product are offering…
Tariffs are a bad idea economists have been warning us about for centuries. It was a founding insight to the entire discipline of economics.
20 Years of Agenda Every two years, coinciding with the political campaigns for the North Carolina legislature, the research division at the John Locke Foundation produces a document that we…
20 Years of Agenda
Patrick Hedger writes for the Federalist that left-of-center policy ideas often deny basic principles of economic science. Several major economic policy positions of the Obama administration fly in the face…
Regular readers in this forum are familiar with the law of unintended consequences. Those who would like to read more examples of the law in action can find them in…
Professor George Reisman, one of two surviving students of Ludwig von Mises (the other is Israel Kirzner) has written a long, devastating critique of Thomas Piketty’s much-hyped book Capital in…