Debt Interest Payments Will Consume Trillions of Dollars in Coming Years
Interest on the national debt is quickly becoming one of the largest expenses in the national budget. Based on projections […]
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Ten Years Later, People Still Blame Deregulation – Tom Woods Show
Ten years after the financial crisis, the standard story still dominates: “deregulation” caused it. This is not even slightly true. […]
The 1968 Gun Control Act: 50 Years of Federal Gun Control
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The GCA is the […]
The US Drug War Started 47 Years Ago. Some Commentary from Milton Friedman on That Failed and Shameful War
June 17 marked the 47th anniversary of America’s War on Drugs Otherwise Peaceful Americans Who Voluntarily Choose To Ingest or […]
Adding up America’s Fiscal Follies through the Years
Recently, a passage from an economics textbook, Modern Principles of Economics, came to my attention. It was written by Tyler […]
The Great Recession, 10 Years Later
What we now know was one of the worst post-World War II economic and financial crises began about ten years […]
We Could Have Had Cell Phones 40 Years Earlier
The basic idea of the cellphone was introduced to the public in 1945 – not in Popular Mechanics or Science, […]