Daily Economy
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What Gordon Ramsay Reveals about Monetary Economics
What does the Austrian theory of the trade cycle have to do with Gordon Ramsay? Plenty.
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Consumer Confidence and Home Construction Drop
Consumer confidence fell in March but remains at a level consistent with economic expansion. Housing activity continues to weaken with no evidence to suggest significant gains in the near future.
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Every House Needs a Nazar Amulet
We need some protection from the evil eye that modern politics is working daily to unleash.
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Facebook and Google Must Answer to the Market
Facebook and Google’s ability to watch their customers has made many uncomfortable, but after 2018 both know that their customers are watching back.
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How Do Bankers Create Value?
Successful banks move resources from lower-value to higher-value uses while unsuccessful banks move resources from higher-value to lower-value uses.
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The Chicago Fed National Activity Index Posts Another Weak Month
The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index posted its third negative result in a row, but the index remains above levels historically associated with either recession or significant price increases.
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No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
A free press and an open intellectual environment is one that should not only challenge the words and deeds of governments in the name of liberty, but should unearth, investigate, and inform the professional and lay public about the realities and truths of the world in which we all live, in both their ugliness and…
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The Myth of Budget-Neutral Spending
Advocates of new government programs often promise that their programs are budget neutral — meaning that adoption of these programs will not increase net government spending. It’s never true.
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If You Love Hot Chocolate, Thank This Man
Behind every great innovation, there is an innovator or maybe many.
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The Slogan that Unleashed this Hell
What we are seeing in our time are the results of a mandate that all personal problems must and should be channeled to political solutions demanded by a collective activist army, with the goal of constructing an apparatus of coercion and compulsion that knows no limits to its power.
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What Gordon Ramsay Reveals about Monetary Economics
What does the Austrian theory of the trade cycle have to do with Gordon Ramsay? Plenty.
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•
Consumer Confidence and Home Construction Drop
Consumer confidence fell in March but remains at a level consistent with economic expansion. Housing activity continues to weaken with no evidence to suggest significant gains in the near future.
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•
Every House Needs a Nazar Amulet
We need some protection from the evil eye that modern politics is working daily to unleash.
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•
Facebook and Google Must Answer to the Market
Facebook and Google’s ability to watch their customers has made many uncomfortable, but after 2018 both know that their customers are watching back.
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•
How Do Bankers Create Value?
Successful banks move resources from lower-value to higher-value uses while unsuccessful banks move resources from higher-value to lower-value uses.
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•
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index Posts Another Weak Month
The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index posted its third negative result in a row, but the index remains above levels historically associated with either recession or significant price increases.
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•
No Sanitized Pages in History, Please!
A free press and an open intellectual environment is one that should not only challenge the words and deeds of governments in the name of liberty, but should unearth, investigate, and inform the professional and lay public about the realities and truths of the world in which we all live, in both their ugliness and…
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•
The Myth of Budget-Neutral Spending
Advocates of new government programs often promise that their programs are budget neutral — meaning that adoption of these programs will not increase net government spending. It’s never true.
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•
If You Love Hot Chocolate, Thank This Man
Behind every great innovation, there is an innovator or maybe many.
-
•
The Slogan that Unleashed this Hell
What we are seeing in our time are the results of a mandate that all personal problems must and should be channeled to political solutions demanded by a collective activist army, with the goal of constructing an apparatus of coercion and compulsion that knows no limits to its power.