Budget, Taxation & Economy
FDR. Obama. Biden.
Anyone left who wants to argue that our new president, Joe Biden, is a centrist? That myth has disintegrated in just 100 days of this administration. On Wednesday night, President…
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1944- American economist
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‘Crisis and Leviathan’ author reacts to COVID-19
John Tierney explains for City Journal why one longtime observer of government growth sees little that surprises him about the COVID-19 response. In the political response to the Covid-19 pandemic,…
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“Democide” and “Corporacide” Compared
Robert Higgs proposes such a comparison in a typically provocative piece at the Independent: R. J. Rummel’s compilations show that approximately 262 million persons were deliberately killed by “their own” governments during…
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“Canadian judge rules Cleveland Indians can use name, Chief Wahoo logo in Toronto ALCS games”
Writing at Cleveland.com, Robert Higgs reports: A court in Toronto rejected attempts by an advocate for indigenous people to block the Cleveland Indians from using its team name or Chief…
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Quiet victims of our mega-state
Karl Marx wrote about the way capitalism supposedly led to the “immiseration” of the proletariat. That was entirely mistaken, but in this Independent Review article, professor Robert Higgs writes about…
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Why the sluggish recovery?
Historian Robert Higgs argues that one key reason why we remain in the economic doldrums is “regime uncertainty” — that is, uncertainty as to future laws and taxes. Uncertainty impedes…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Unfunded Liabilities Won’t Go Away
View in your browser. While unfunded liabilities continue to garner plenty of attention in the press, I fear a lack of understanding means this attention is failing to translate into…
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What, exactly, is wrong with Keynesian theory?
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal ran the excerpt below from Professor Robert Higgs’ new book Delusions of Power. It’s as clear a refutation as you’ll ever find of the essential error…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Revealing the fallacy of war-generated prosperity
We’ve all heard it, “the war got us out of the Great Depression.” This fallacy, that war generates wealth and higher incomes—rather than waste, death, and destruction—seems to be everywhere,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Problem with Inflation
View in your browser. News that severe inflation has arrived in the US — well beyond the Federal Reserve target of 1.5 to 2 percent — continues to abound. The…
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We’re just a stroke of Obama’s pen away….
Away from economic fascism, argues historian Robert Higgs in this post at The Beacon. Specifically, Obama’s latest Executive Order gives the president (himself or any successor) almost unlimited powers. Higgs…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Oh the irony: Advocating liberty to Americans. (Q&A from tax debate)
At the end of last week’s tax debate, my opponent and I received about 45 minutes of questions from audience members. Most of these attacked pro-liberty ideals, which also happen to be…