A bit over one year ago, leaders the world over closed their borders in the name of disease transmission mitigation. Some did so in what was an extension of policies enacted earlier, and others did so for the first time in...
0:37Intro. [Recording date: March 11, 2021.]Russ Roberts: Today is March 11, 2021, and before introducing today's guest, I want to correct a mistake I made in last week's episode [Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and Aristotle--Econlib Ed.] I misquoted, horrifying, a poem by...
Many thought that the government-imposed lockdowns of 2020 might result in a temporary reprieve of the United States’ falling birth rates. Unfortunately, it appears that this will not be the silver lining of COVID-19 after all. Economists Melissa Kearney and Philip Levine believe that there will be...
“Why is the world the way it is?” reads the first line of Lewis Dartnell’s great book Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History. Many of us have asked ourselves that question in the last twelve to fourteen months, and I’ve repeatedly advised people to...
By constantly invoking the ghost of Jim Crow, they treat black voters as if they were helpless children.Like many of our racial debates of late, the discussion about voting rights has a certain broken-record aspect to it. Republicans call for voter restrictions in the...
The Biden administration and some (but not all) of their Democratic allies in Congress want to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. They say this would help the working class and hurt Big Business, finally making corporations “pay their fair share.” But if...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetMy dear friend, co-founder of Cafe Hayek, and former colleague Russ Roberts is (as many of you know) founder and host of the remarkable podcast “EconTalk.” Russ’s latest guest is my esteemed colleague Tyler Cowen. The topic is Covid-19 and the response to...
In an interview with National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed chair Jerome Powell said that even with the economy rebounding faster than expected, any change in monetary policy would happen “very, very gradually over time and with great transparency....
Secretary of the Treasury, and ex Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently hosted an important meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. This is really the highest level body overseeing financial regulation in the US. It matters. Her remarks start smoothly but critically, as one expects...
April 7, 2021The tyranny of the "enlightened" expertsfromMises: In a country where the traditional definition of virtue has “evolved” and the search for metaphysical truth has largely been sidelined, millions of Americans seem to believe that there is no higher truth than the Science and that...