Tag: Econlib

On June 17, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tweeted: Recent reporting projects that stablecoins could grow into a $3.7 trillion market ...

The more research I have done on economic statistics, appreciating the practical challenges, the less certain I am that we ...

I’m sure DOGE will have a long history as the textbook definition of overpromising and underdelivering. There were a lot ...

I’ve started reading Bryan Caplan’s excellent new book entitled Pro-Market and Pro-Business: Essays on Laissez-faire, and have covered the first ...

Question: One common argument against public assistance taking the form of direct cash handouts is that the recipients will use ...

China recently experienced a housing crash that is comparable in size to what the US experienced during 2006-10. Before considering ...

The newest season of the Netflix documentary America’s Sweethearts, which traces the 2024 audition, training, and performance season of the ...

People occasionally ask me how my views on economics differ from those of John Cochrane. In a recent Cochrane post ...

I’ve seen progressives derisively refer to a “libertarian paradise” in Somalia, where the government is largely absent.  While it’s true ...

In my review of Norbert J. Michel’s Crushing Capitalism, which I quoted from yesterday, I didn’t have room to highlight ...