(Don Boudreaux) TweetI thank my Mercatus Center colleague Jack Salmon for alerting me to this powerful video. Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...
The United States is on its way to normalcy with the horrors of the last year and a half almost behind us. Lockdowns have been lifted with almost no talk of coming back at the time of this writing, masks are starting to come off,...
Ian Vásquez Last December I wrote an op‐ed (in Spanish) titled “Losing Fear in Cuba” pointing to what appeared to be a significant, new development: ordinary Cubans were becoming unafraid to publicly protest the communist regime. The mass uprising across the country this week in which Cubans shouted,...
A broken clock is still right twice a day. And even CNN stumbles onto an accurate interpretation of the news once in a while. On New Day this morning, hosts John Berman and Christine Roman broke down the latest data showing spikes in consumer prices with...
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“Videos posted on social media showed security agents and groups of soldiers beating up demonstrators on Sunday. Protesters ripped up portraits of Fidel Castro, while others destroyed police motorbikes and overturned police cars.” Those are the words of Wall Street Journal reporters Jose de Cordoba and Santiago...
Recently the Wall Street Journal stated that President Biden’s July 9 executive order on competition is a “sweeping proposal to spur competition.” That raises an important question: how can a government spur competition? Economics has a lot to say about that question. The major way,...
Are billionaires human dragons? That was the hot take of one person on Twitter: And look how many people agreed with her! 43 thousand retweets and 150 thousand likes when this screenshot was taken. So what does that make Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? Is the richest man...
For centuries, Americans have worried that immigrants could overwhelm and negatively alter economic and political institutions in the United States. In 1783, at the end of the American War of Independence, even Thomas Jefferson had misgivings about too rapid an influx of immigrants, writing that...
The future of crypto, cities, and inflation: "I don't think of crypto as a currency. I think of it as a new set of institutions." – @tylercowen.Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/0DyOOSHCaB.#cryptocurrencies #Crypto #Ethereum #bitcoin #btc #NYC pic.twitter.com/ytBDfY59LX — James Altucher (@jaltucher) July 9, 2021 The...