Bernie Sanders is a Bad Economist: Housing Market Edition
October 23, 2019 – Zachary Yost …… Bernie Sanders’s proposed “House Fixing tax” would not only hurt flippers and their homebuying customers but also some landlords and tenants as well.
Politics Drops Its Pretenses
October 22, 2019 – Jeff Deist …… We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement.
Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson
October 21, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… The case for liberty is hidden in plain sight in our phones and a million other things our lives depend on.
Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship
October 20, 2019 – Brittany Hunter …… Kids participating in Utah’s Children’s Entrepreneur Market are being ordered by government officials to pay sales tax on their small businesses. But one activist says children are exempt from such taxes.
What if the Majority Voted for “None of the Above”?
October 18, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Allowing a space on the ballot for “none of the above” would be a step in the right direction toward a slightly less farcical political system.
Why “Worker Exploitation” Is a Myth
October 17, 2019 – Antony Sammeroff …… Workers get paid now, but the capitalists only get paid if there is a profit. This is why workers aren’t paid 100 percent of the value of their output. For them, there is far less risk than for the capitalist.
Solar Roads: Another Government-Funded Energy Failure
October 16, 2019 – Ross Marchand …… From solar roads to Solyndra to the ATVM program, government-backed technological endeavors have been a disaster.
Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows
October 15, 2019 – Lawrence W. Reed …… How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?
The World’s Least-Free Countries Reveal Just How Much “Socialism Sucks”
October 14, 2019 – David Gordon …… When socialists held up Venezuela as a great socialist experiment in the 2000s, the message was, ‘See, we told you so; socialism works!’ but when failure happened, the message changed to, ‘No, wait — that’s not real socialism!’
Economic Growth Does Not Cause Price Inflation
October 10, 2019 – Frank Shostak …… It is not true that a growing economy will lead to price inflation. A growing economy is an increasingly productive economy and leads to dollars chasing a larger number of goods and services — causing deflation.