In one of the nation’s greatest blunders, we (that is, our representatives in Congress) decided to subsidize higher education with easy-to-get loans…
No one knows who John Cowperthwaite is. No one who is not a classical liberal that is. Among that small subset of…
The Biden administration has floated another bloated budget, one that will put the US national debt at $43.6 trillion by 2033, assuming…
The past three years did quite a number on my once-high optimism about the future. The eagerness and ease with which governments…
Is fractional-reserve banking inherently unstable? Over at National Review, Edwin Burton, a visiting economics professor at the University of Virginia, argues that…
Note: An earlier version of this article appeared at Economic Forces. Anyone who has followed macroeconomic debates of the last half-century is…
Included in President Joe Biden’s recently released budget proposal are several tax increases, among them an increase to the top marginal income…
In Cleveland, OH, during his bid for the presidency, Walter Mondale blamed his opponent’s policies for turning the region into a “rust…
Wilson County Courthouse, Wilson, North Carolina. The city of Wilson, a quiet town of about 50,000 in eastern North Carolina, would not…
An earlier version of this article appeared at Economic Forces. The dumbest economics discussion over the past few years — and that’s…