“What about the poor?” people ask when confronted with skepticism about government endeavors, particularly welfare. Instead of trying to transfer income, perhaps we should look toward the very things governments…
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On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand spoke with Allen Mendenhall, author, lawyer, Associate Dean and Professor in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University. He teaches a…
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As summer winds down and kids go back to school, families across America are settling into new routines. “The hardest thing,” as President Biden recently told a group of middle…
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Economist Jason Furman recently called for the Federal Reserve to raise its inflation target from 2 to 3 percent. In defending his position, Furman argued that while unexpected inflation results…
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The North Carolina General Assembly is considering taking some of the current budget surplus and creating an “endowment,” a free-standing fund that be empowered to act as a government “angel”…
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Slowly but persistently, inflation is falling. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI) increased 0.2 percent in July. Over the past year, prices are…
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The technical nature of monetary policy obscures a basic fact: Governments created central banks for fiscal reasons. As a result, public finance considerations receive little attention in monetary policy debates.…
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A winner-takes-all aspect rules much of the modern world. It annoys pundits that a handful of firms dominate every industry. It annoys tech regulators that the Googles and Facebooks of…
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If there is anything at the core that separates the economically illiterate from the literate, it is the basic perception of the world as it is. The former tends to…
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With so many Americans now saying that they prefer to live under socialism than capitalism, it’s good to get a strong reminder about the true nature of socialist regimes. I’ve…