Jobs Created By Trade

The Jobs You Don’t Want to Be Destroyed By Trade Were Created By Trade: "By keeping prices down, and outputs and product varieties up, trade makes every dollar earned go further." ~Donald J. Boudreaux

A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One

A Therapeutic Middle East Versus A Tragic One

Government Can’t Handle Loneliness

An Epidemic of Loneliness?: "In addition to overstepping its bounds through potential regulations, censorship, and bans, government has itself contributed to the problem of loneliness." ~James Peterson

Iran’s Own Growing Danger

Does Iran Realize Its Own Growing Danger?

The Progressivist Support Of Extermination

Hamas and Amoral Clarity

Catch-up Inflation

Catch-up Inflation: "Where there is collective bargaining, workers go on strike to demand higher wages in order to catch-up to inflation. Elsewhere in the economy, individual workers bargain for higher wages with their current employer, or begin searching for better-paying jobs." ~Clifford Thies

The Scam Of Weasel Words

Do I Own What Is Mine?: "We should rethink the deference we give what may be the shortest, but not the least damaging weasel word in common usage today." ~Gary M. Galles

Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie

Joe Biden, Shifty Economists, and the Big Lie: "America’s federal tax system remains steeply progressive, and no politically motivated data manipulation will ever alter that fact." ~Phil Magness

Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence

Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence: "Price controls do not stop inflation; they only make things worse. If prices are going up, it's either because monetary policy is too loose or because the economy suffered a decline in productivity."

Financial Crisis in American Cities

An Insider Untangles the Causes of the Financial Crisis in American Cities: "Balancing budgets without reassessing what municipal governments should or should not do, and the long-term benefits and costs of their activities is insufficient." ~Jason Sorens & Robertas Bakula

Rebutting Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’

Eyes, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes: Rebutting Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’

Falsifying A Free Market Economist

Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists: "They treat history as 'an armoury from which to ransack politically expedient weapons.' In the process of that ransacking, they cross the line into willful misrepresentations of their source material, all in the service of a modern-day political cause. " ~Phillip W. Magness

The Real Trouble with the Trump Indictment

Lawyers are being indicted for doing legal work.

Protecting Competition or Preventing It?

Protecting Competition or Preventing It?: "If you can’t reduce competition in the sense of harming rivals, you cannot engage in rivalry seeking to benefit consumers. " ~ Gary Galles

“Global Boiling”: An Assault On Reason and Science

“Global Boiling”: An Assault On Reason and Science: "Unfortunately, the promotion of the “climate narrative” has been successful in inducing citizens to ignore how their liberties and rights are in jeopardy from the imposition of repressive public policies that are being answered as a solution." ~ Christopher Lingle

What Progressivists Don’t Understand

What ESGers Don’t Understand: "ESGers & Co., in short, want the power to free favored individuals or groups from having to play by the rules of the market." ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Rent Control Recidivists Refuse To Get Real

Rent Control Recidivism: "The campaign to tighten rent controls in California, as in every other jurisdiction where the issue is in play, relies on voters’ ongoing ignorance and misunderstanding of the realities of the rental housing market." ~ Gary Galles

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