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The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they...
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The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they...
Hyperinflation isn’t ancient history. It’s a recurring policy failure with war-level damage.
As an official Public Policy Hooligan, James Bovard is well-known for some of his zingers. Here are some he wrote in 2025.
The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India’s system also is in a...
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with...
For more than 40 years, US farm policy has socialized farm land and transferred wealth to politically-connected people.
For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done...
For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done...
Policy-made rates reshape everything: mortgages, bonds, stocks, and commodities.
High time preference is a sign of economic degradation, and Bose shows that a rejection of Christian sexual ethics is a feature of a...
While the jury still is out regarding Javier Milei’s economic and political “reforms” in Argentina, one must remember that the damaging interventions into Argentina’s...
On Wednesday, the silver price hit $63.86 per ounce — nearly double its level a year ago — after the Federal Reserve trimmed rates...
Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
Mainstream economists are at a loss to explain why the current regime of inflation and central bank interventions have been so economically devastating. Understanding...