Government-Induced Inequality
French economist Thomas Piketty – author of Capital, the least read book of 2014, and now A Brief History of Equality – continues to ...
Monday, November 11, 2024
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Zero-Covid Policy Threatens Hong Kong’s Status as an International Financial Hub
Hong Kong’s implementation of draconian COVID policies threatens its status as an international financial hub. This is seen through Hong ...
Not Every “Crypto” Is Decentralized: Proof-of-Work vs Proof-of-Stake
Cryptocurrencies operate differently than the money that we are used to. Because they are solely electronic, there is no physical ...
How to Think About Inflation
Everything old is new again: Inflation plagues the US economy. The Consumer Price Index is up 7.9 percent from a ...
What An Economist Knows About Crony Vaccines
As an economist, my job is not to help you make health decisions about Covid vaccines. Your health history, age, ...
Re-Working Supply Chains Requires Thinking Differently
Marketers, manufacturers and even the media have been keeping tabs on all things related to logistics like never before. Coverage ...
Why Deficits Matter
The US is experiencing the strongest price pressures in 40 years. Financial and economic commentators are searching frantically for the ...
The Federal Government’s Debt Ceiling Needs More Teeth
Merely raising the debt limit one more time will not solve America’s fiscal crisis. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated that it ...
Getting Real About Taxes
As AIER Research Director Phil Magness recently pointed out, a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains like that recently proposed ...
Adam Smith, Capitation, and the Nonsense That Is the Proposed Wealth Tax
A wealth tax, recently redubbed a tax on “unrealized capital gains,” is all the rage in Washington, D.C. these days. ...
