Reprinted from the Cato Institute The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been plagued with issues since its inception. So when a new report was released from Congress last week on the fraudulent activity…
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AIER’s Everyday Price fell 0.2 percent in November following a rise of 0.7 percent in October and declines of 0.4 percent in September, 1.3 percent in August, and 0.6 percent…
Kevin Warsh, a former member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, writes in defense of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Warsh believes we…
Reprinted from DC Journal It happened again. While scrolling through social media during morning coffee, I came across another post about how wonderful everything was when we were kids and…
Image Source: Flickr Can you imagine scanning the skies, seeing it’s a calm, overcast day, and then realizing you’re in danger? That is the energy world environmentalists are pushing us…
Inequality is a hot political topic. So is income mobility. For the past few years, many economists have talked about the negative relationship between income inequality and income mobility. In…
Samuel Gregg’s 2022 book, The Next American Economy, is an important and brilliant achievement. Gregg eloquently champions the free, commercial society against its many detractors. Among these detractors, of course,…
Politicians have long assayed education in terms of economic value. In 1994, for example, Bill Clinton told educators that they were not providing youth with the practical skills they would…
Protectionism in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Harms Consumers and Domestic Industries
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote, “It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost…
Villa Barton, the headquarters of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Reprinted from the Future of Freedom Foundation On September 16, 1939, barely more than two weeks after…