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How Labor Unions Can Be Anti-Labor

To anyone who understands the role of the productivity of labor in raising real wages, it should be obvious that the unions’ policy of combating the rise in the productivity of labor renders them in fact a leading enemy of the rise in real wages.

The Trump Branded Economy

The Trump Branded Economy

We have entered an age where substance has not only taken a back seat to style, but has been left completely on the side of the road

Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth

Interest Rates Need to Tell the Truth

In the middle of July 2018, President Donald Trump said in an interview that he was “not happy” with the Federal Reserve nudging up interest rates and threatening economic growth in the United States. At the recent Jackson Hole, Wyoming, meeting of global central bank...

Canada Nationalizes The Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Expansion

Canada Nationalizes The Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Expansion

Instead of enforcing the Constitution and using its authority against the British Columbia government and protesters initiating physical force against Kinder Morgan property and its employees, Trudeau stayed true to what he said prior to the last election: “Governments might grant permits, but only communities can grant permission.”

Tariff Wars (and the Fallacy of the Balance of Trade)

Tariff Wars (and the Fallacy of the Balance of Trade)

The world may be on the brink of a series of trade wars between the United States and both the European Union and China. All the parties say they don’t want this — though President has asserted that trade wars are not a problem and easy to win. That remains to be...

The Unintended Consequences of The Minimum Wage

The Unintended Consequences of The Minimum Wage

But behind all of these negative and usually unintended consequences arising from the imposing of a government-enforced hourly minimum wage remains the fundamental ethical issue: who shall have the right to decide under what terms and conditions people enter into gainful employment?

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