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Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
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Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost...
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...
The so-called K-shaped economy—where some experience positive growth and others negative growth—is perfectly explained by Austrian business cycle theory and the Cantillon effect.
Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
Federal workers are a powerful lobby in Washington, and taxpayers pay for federal bureaucrats’ wages inflated through federal laws favoring federal unions.
President Trump is planning to appoint a two-star US general to lead the international force that may be deployed to Gaza under the US...
Data shows that the marriage rate and the homeownership rate have been closely connected for decades. Historically, more marriage means more home buying, but...
David Beito’s new biography on Franklin D. Roosevelt is not the hagiographic nonsense that has dominated the US history profession. That is a good...
Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same...
As Congress scrambles to extend emergency subsidies to keep Obamacare afloat, it can be tempting to view the bill that made healthcare less affordable...
In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the Constitution...
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho break down the latest FOMC meeting, the real takeaways from Powell’s Fed talk,...