Why the Profit Motive Must be Preserved

The Charge to Change Capitalism and Why the Profit Motive Must be Preserved: On September 13, 2020, Imperative 21 launched the RESET Campaign with an aim of resetting our economic system away from a profit-oriented approach to one that focuses on the common good. The launch date was deliberate, given that it was the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s notorious New...

The Myth Of Greedflation

Does Greedflation Fit the Facts?: "While an increase in market power would certainly affect real income growth, the magnitude necessary to explain inflation is implausibly large." ~ Bryan Cutsinger

Socialism Dictates, It Doesn’t Achieve

The Essential Ethic of Socialism: "In a socialist regime, I must seek the permission of others — whether state officials or one’s fellow workers — before I serve them in a novel way." ~ Adam Martin

The Artificiality Of Housing Shortages

No Place to Lay Your Head: How Economic Policy Makes Housing Unaffordable for Young Working Families: "There’s artificial scarcity in housing markets, but in that case it’s the planners themselves who put housing in such short supply – and at consequent high prices." ~ H. Shelton Weeks and Victor Claar

Admiring Disingenuousness about Affirmative Action

Why Libertarians Should Admire Universities’ and Colleges’ Disingenuousness about Affirmative Action: "I regard disingenuous efforts to continue the practice of racial and ethnic preferences to be the kind of noble action that libertarians should respect. The schools are simply making every effort they can to avoid the restrictions of what they consider an unjust law." ~ John Hasnas

In Defense of Allowing Collusion

In Defense of Allowing Collusion: "We understand that if markets are to serve consumers as well as possible, entrepreneurs and investors must enjoy wide freedom to experiment with different organizational and contractual arrangements." ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

If We Live by Lies, We Will Demand Deceitful Politicians

If We Live by Lies, We Will Demand Deceitful Politicians: "When we choose to live in an inner world governed by our self-deception, we get a government ruling by deceit and vigorously stifling alternative views. " ~ Barry Brownstein

Slavery Reparations Cui Bono

The Surprising Beneficiaries of American Slavery: "The late economist Walter E. Williams said that slavery was the worst thing ever to happen to his ancestors, but the best thing ever to happen to him." ~ Charley Hooper and David R. Henderson

Cash, Crime, Minimum Wage, and Unintended Consequences

Cash, Crime, Minimum Wage, and Unintended Consequences

The Social Justice Swindle

A Brief History of Social Justice: "The underlying problem with social justice is the failure to distinguish between negative rights, which protect liberty and property, and positive rights, which provide a license to violate established negative rights." ~ Robert F. Mulligan

Underestimating The Cost Of Lockdowns

Appropriately Measuring Inflation and Deflation Teaches Humility!: "Had we used the true price index, we would have found a larger contraction due to lockdowns. That means that we understated the cost of lockdowns." ~ Vincent Geloso

The Affirmative Action Game

The Affirmative Action Game: "The Equal Protection clause is inarguably textually neutral. To interpret equal protection for all as meaning extra protection for some requires some political heavy lifting that a strictly textual argument does not." ~ James E. Hanley

The Fourth of July Did Not Promise What Can’t Be Delivered

What the Fourth of July Was Not

Fauci’s Ministry Of Lies Exposed

How AIER Helped to Hobble Fauci’s “Ministry of Truth”: "Government officials advanced a smear campaign against the GBD, its authors, AIER, and other critics. Judge Doughty says the case 'arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.'” ~ By Phil Magness and Robert E. Wright

The Wire Turns Twenty

The Wire Turns Twenty: "In the end, The Wire offers Baltimoreans no hope, and statist policymakers no path forward. But surely a smaller city government would mean a better Baltimore." ~ Robert E. Wright

The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day

The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day: "When was the last time a politician of any description used the phrase 'sacred honor' with a straight face?" ~ James Harrigan