Guest Column
The Boston Red Sox and Bad Baseball Economics
If you don’t understand the law of supply and demand, you may end up promoting the very outcome you want to avoid.
1Feb2012 | Aaron Gordon | 4 comments | ContinuedTaxing Investment
The income tax double-taxes saving relative to consumption, that is, reduces the returns to saving twice, while reducing the returns to consumption just once.
23Jan2012 | Roy Cordato | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Keynesian Cure for Hunger: Eat More
For millennia people were starving to death and the solution was right there in front of them.
16Jan2012 | Richard W. Fulmer | 12 comments | ContinuedCavemen and Middlemen
Middlemen helped bring mankind out of caves and into prosperity; in return they have been reviled, persecuted, and killed.
9Jan2012 | Richard W. Fulmer | 13 comments | ContinuedGeorge Leef’s Top Ten
And the best books reviewed in The Freeman in 2011 are . . .
29Dec2011 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedWhy the Titanic Is Sinking
The Declaration of Gratitude would destroy the assumption that government spending harms no one.
23Nov2011 | James L. Payne | 18 comments | ContinuedThe Best Bet Is Freedom
The greatest threat to the established political order is for people to fully realize that whenever the force of government is used to obtain special privilege, it is done at the expense of our neighbors, friends, and family.
9Nov2011 | Jason Riddle | 8 comments | ContinuedHilda Solis, Secretary of Unions
Hilda Solis thinks labor unions are so obviously virtuous that any worker who votes against unionization does so only because evil labor relations consultants have conspired to muddle the worker’s brain.
10Oct2011 | Charles W. Baird | 37 comments | ContinuedPrincipal-Agent Problem Meets the Public Sector
The problem with trying to adapt business-style incentives to a government agency is . . . government.
19Sep2011 | Fred Smith and Jacqueline Otto | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Family Stone: Cavemen, Trade, and Comparative Advantage
As poor as governments are at allocating known tasks, they are even worse at assigning tasks that don’t yet exist.
31Aug2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 29 comments | ContinuedShoot the Shorts
Rather than indulging in Schadenfreude, we in the United States would do well to apply European lessons to our own troubles.
22Aug2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 11 comments | ContinuedThe Infrastructure Delusion
Goods, people, and information will not flow freely across a nation, regardless of the quality and extent of its infrastructure, if taxes and regulations block their flow.
15Aug2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 41 comments | ContinuedQuantitative Easing Forever?
In the end both quantitative easing and the zero-interest-rate policy have been ineffective in restoring economic vitality while also creating a massive overhang of repressed inflation.
10Aug2011 | Christopher Lingle | 7 comments | ContinuedContradicting Keynes: Bernanke’s Debt Default Scare
Did the person supposedly in charge of determining interest rates in the United States through Federal Reserve credit creation really say that?
27Jul2011 | James C. W. Ahiakpor | 9 comments | ContinuedGouging, Free Markets, and the Psychology of Fuel
By promoting the individual development and harnessing of fuel, we can avoid the pitfalls posed by centralized control.
25Jul2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 6 comments | ContinuedHe’s No Bruce Lee
It would appear that we have a market failure of sorts: folks of wildly varying skills claiming to be black belts, some able to give a Bruce Lee performance, others looking more pathetic than potent.
20Jul2011 | Jim Fedako | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Threat Is in the Spending
The lack of a plan to control government spending poses a much greater threat to America’s credit standing than uncertainty over whether the debt limit will be raised.
6Jul2011 | Christopher Lingle | 22 comments | Continued-
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