Budget, Taxation & Economy
Kamala’s Disastrous Price Control Proposal
Price controls always end in disaster, let's not repeat history
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bidenomics: 1.5 Million Full-Time Jobs Lost Over the Last Year
When it comes to praise for Joe Biden's job creation record, don't believe the hype.
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
How to Feed a Culture of Dependency
Work and personal responsibility lead to prosperity, but the left increasingly favors programs that foster government dependency. The Biden administration peddles expansive programs that punish work and disrupt good incentives.…
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…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Panic buying and price gouging
Frank Bullitt writes for Issues and Insights about the value of “price gouging” in a situation like the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxious consumers across the country are raiding stores, emptying entire…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Writing at mises.org, Roy Cordato Explains Gov’t Stimulus is the Real Trickle-Down Economics
“Trickle-down economics” is used frequently by critics of supply-side economic policies. But JLF’s Roy Cordato points out that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it is those who believe money should flow…
Liberty
Effectively fighting poverty in North Carolina
View in your browser. In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240…
Liberty
Are government restrictions on supply leading to a doctor shortage?
Obamacare uses tax money to subsidize the demand for health care services, both through health insurance subsidies and expansion of Medicaid. The problem is that there is a vast array…
Liberty
The high cost of our obsession with home ownership
America’s obsession with home 0wnership goes back to the New Deal and continues to do us a great deal of damage. So argues Ryan McMaken in this Mises Daily piece. …
Liberty
Uber works for rich and poor alike — but statists say it must be stopped!
The success of Uber — despite lots of regulatory obstacles put up by taxi companies that don’t want any competition — has been revelatory. It reveals first of all how…
Liberty
Teaching in N.C., certificate-of-need flaws, Obamacare, and other items of interest
WUNC Radio asked Terry Stoops for reaction to a series of articles tied to the Twitter hashtag #TeachinginNC. NCPoliticalNews.com and N.C. Senate Republicans highlighted Stoops’ column on North Carolina’s latest…
Liberty
The “advantage” of utopianism
In this article on the Mises Institute site, Pepperdine University economics professor Gary Galles examines the advantage that utopianism has over freedom — when it comes to rhetoric. Utopians can…