Economics
Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system, in which big and long lasting corporations pay over 90% of their profit,… Read More »Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system
Is economics considered a science? If so why? Isn’t money and value merely an agreed upon idea? A paper dollar has value because we all… Read More »Is economics considered a science?
Ludwig von Mises spoke/wrote these words in 1958. He was optimistic that good ideas (loosely, free markets and free minds) would defeat bad ideas via… Read More »Ludwig von Mises on Politics and Ideas
In the United States, the term adjusted gross income has the smell of US Federal Tax Form 1040, and accordingly, yes; which is both a… Read More »Is Social Security included in adjusted gross income?
The problem with state planners, whether communist or fascist, is arrogance. A statist views its particular plan as self-evidently true and just, as natural as… Read More »The Problem with State Planners
In this audio book, Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Source: The Case… Read More »The Case Against the Fed | Mises Institute
Yes, we could build a wall as Trump has proposed. Let’s st aside the important matter of whether that is a good idea in terms… Read More »An Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Wall Is So Implausible – and Bastiat
I. THE BROKEN WINDOWHave you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a square of… Read More »That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen; by Frederic Bastiat
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that do not have brains enough to be honest. –Benjamin Franklin
Hat tip to the Mises Institute. From the Foreword to the German Edition of Keynes’ General Theory: The theory of aggregate production, which is the point… Read More »Keynesianism Loves the Total State