Africa is in no position to bring a halt to economic activity
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Even If the Fed Keeps Pumping Money, We May Still See Deflation
It is tempting to assume both money supply inflation and price inflation will come soon as…
Government Overreach in the Age of COVID-19
Although some would like to blame capitalism for the early missteps in the federal response to…
Current Housing Boom Is Over
It's 2006 all over again
Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going
Central banks have started doing the dirty work by rolling out the biggest “backstop” ever
Did Native Peoples Live in Harmony with Nature? It’s Complicated.
The popular notion that indigenous peoples residing in a precapitalist order are particularly skillful at managing…
How the CDC Prevented Fast and Accurate Testing for COVID-19
After weeks of bungling, faulty tests, and policy reversals the CDC bureaucrats managed to achieve some…
Why Central Planning by Medical Experts Will Lead to Disaster
Medical experts have tunnel vision when it comes to disease and public policy, and they greatly…
While the West Panicked, Some Asian Regimes Took a Different Path
Even Now, Japan and Hong Kong are moving only very slowly toward economic "lockdowns." Korea and…
Entrepreneurship Is the Foundation of a Productive Society
What or who is to blame for negative views of self-ownership?
Why Mexico Fears Shutting Down Its Economy to Combat COVID-19
The distance between a "normal" economy and grinding poverty is a lot smaller in Mexico than…
Why Central Planning by Medical Experts Will Lead to Disaster
Those with detailed knowledge of the disease (the experts we have been told to obey) do not have…
Freedom Still Matters, Even in the Midst of a Virus
We cannot allow combating a virus to overwhelm all other values in society
Airline Bailouts Destabilize the Economy and Inflate Asset Prices
Instead of planning for hard times, these corporate welfare machines called "airlines" use resources to inflate…
Life and Health Are at Stake as the Economy Grinds to a Halt
The quality of the models being used by politicians to set COVID-19 policy is only as…