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Carbon Pricing Is Coming to America, Like It or Not
Bloomberg· 2 hours agoFifty countries now have national systems for pricing global warming emissions, and they may soon drag the US into joining them. Mark Gongloff is a...
Women Are America’s Safety Net
The Atlantic· 2 hours agoParenting in modern America is a high-wire act. For many parents, the experience is shaped by the dominant expectation of intensive, hands-on...
High Interest Rates and Economic Risks: Is the Fed Missing the Warning Signs?
The National Interest· 6 days agoMilton Friedman famously taught that monetary policy operates with long and variable lags of...
In memory of David Boaz, an honorable champion of liberty
Orange County Register· 6 days agoDavid Boaz, who served over four decades at the libertarian Cato Institute, passed away on Friday,...
Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom Under Scrutiny
Reason.com via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoThis is a problem, he continues, because market failures are more extensive and severe than the "neoliberals"—people like Stiglitz's fellow Nobel...
What Causes Stagflation? | Mises Institute
Ludwig von Mises Institute· 3 days agoIn the late 1960s Edmund Phelps and Milton Friedman challenged the popular view that there can be a sustainable trade-off between inflation and...
The Bank of Japan Faces an Impossible Challenge
Barrons.com· 6 hours agoA policy mistake could upend global markets, William Pesek writes in a guest commentary. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda has in 14 months seen his odds of...
Right-wing media reacted to blowout May jobs report with nativism, some pushed “great replacement”...
Media Matters· 3 days agoFollowing the June 7 release of the latest federal jobs report — which showed that employment...
David Boaz, RIP
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHis edited anthology The Libertarian Reader: Classic & Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman—which came out accompanying his primer in...
Matthew Lau: Race and ethnicity are lousy predictors of poverty in Canada
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 6 days agoMilton Friedman’s first rule for government programs to alleviate poverty was: “If the objective is...