From yesterday’s Casey Report: Dear Reader, What happens to your money when you put it in a bank? I remember when I was five years old, watching in awe from the passenger seat of our family station wagon as my mom put my dad’s paycheck into the plastic capsule at the automated teller. She’d place…
DetailsEconomicPolicyJournal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently told Palm Beach Atlantic University students that obsession over trivial identity-based sleights has reached an all-time high: My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black…
DetailsGather your brain cells for contemplation on the following… Help: Any thoughts on whether this is true about microwaves? We live in one of the greatest periods in history, thanks to the progress of medicine and luxury. You can thank the free market for most of these things! Government redistribution happens, all right. Old people…
DetailsYour lecture of the week this week is a wonderful critique of government’s ratchet effect in times of crisis. Robert Higgs is a powerhouse at cutting through the bullshit…
“C” referring here to Coffee. Eric Peters explains why philosophically, the fiat amounts to little more than theft. This one is a truthiness overload: If government – using its magical powers – can make health care “affordable” why not make everything people need (and hell, everything they want) affordable? It’s a little mean-spirited to lower…
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