by George Selgin | Nov 21, 2016 | Money & Banking
“Monetary control” refers to the various procedures and devices the Fed and other central banks employ in their attempts to regulate the overall availability of liquid assets, and through it the general course of spending, prices, and employment, in the economies they oversee.
by George Selgin | Nov 20, 2016 | Money & Banking
I regard any need for last-resort lending as reflecting, not the inherent shortcomings of private financial markets, but the debilitating effects of misguided regulatory interference with the free development of those markets.
by Richard E. Ralston | Nov 20, 2016 | Healthcare
Obamacare is not doing well financially, so more young adults must be coerced into paying excessive insurance premiums to subsidize older participants.
by Jaana Woiceshyn | Nov 19, 2016 | Business
By clearly and publicly withdrawing their moral sanction of government’s freedom-curtailing and welfare-destroying actions, business leaders can have a big impact on all of our future.
by Jaana Woiceshyn | Nov 18, 2016 | Energy
Government-caused uncertainty, such as not approving pipeline construction or imposing more taxes (such as the carbon tax), discourages investment and thus prevents employment recovery.
by Peter Schiff | Nov 18, 2016 | Elections
As many people expect great changes from Trump, it is worthwhile to look at what the Reagan Revolution actually wrought.
by Peter Schiff | Nov 17, 2016 | MARKETS
The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 provides the best recent precedent for the unexpected triumph of Donald Trump (in my opinion, the other post-war Republican takeovers of the White House –Ike in ’52, Nixon ’68, and W. in ’00 – did not constitute a real break... by Peter Schiff | Nov 17, 2016 | MARKETS
The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 provides the best recent precedent for the unexpected triumph of Donald Trump (in my opinion, the other post-war Republican takeovers of the White House –Ike in ’52, Nixon ’68, and W. in ’00 – did not constitute a real break... by John Browne | Nov 15, 2016 | MARKETS
Brexit and the Donald Trump presidential victory should rightly be viewed as the most significant international developments of the last decade. Both events illustrate a breaking down of globalist order and they both threaten the entrenched elite that has so...