Central bankers are not afraid Trump will “politicize” the Fed and turn it into a crony arm of the government that warps the…
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The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the…
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“America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against…
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“America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against…
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Conservatives may protest at first, but ultimately, they bring up the progressive rear to defend, and indeed celebrate, the new status quo.
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When it comes to supporting the Trump administration, there is room for some honest self-reflection: What did I know and when did I…
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Net Present Value (NPV) is a popular decision-making criteria used by firms to make key, crucial choices about how to allocate resources across…
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When Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and created a huge welfare state funded by declining oil revenues, he unleashed huge social problems…
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What would be the economic consequences if one individual had a money printer? Now trace that out to a central bank and government.
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Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be…