Security Breach of PM Modi – A Brief Analysis
On the 5th of January, 2022; a huge controversy erupted. PM Narendra Modi was forced to wait for 20 minutes on a flyover when he was enroute to the National Martyr’s Memorial at Hussainiwala. Due to this, the Prime Minister
European Government Expansion Did Not Expand the Job Markets
For the past two years, governments in the European Union have engaged in contradictory actions by both suppressing economic growth through lockdowns and other covid-19 restrictions and simultaneously trying to “stimulate” their economies through monetary expansion by the European Central
Down with Primitivism: A Thorough Critique of Polanyi
Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation is a farrago of confusions, absurdities, fallacies, and distorted attacks on the free market. The temptation is to engage in almost a line-by-line critique. I will abjure this to first set out some of the
The Covid Panic Brought Even More Economic Zombification
More and more economists and finance specialists are warning of the potential arrival of a new “Minsky moment.” The last time this term was used with such conviction was in 2008 at the onset of the Great Recession. It seems that 2021–22 could have
Anthony Fauci: Master of Medical Crony Capitalism
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Healthby Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Skyhorse Publishing, 2021; 449 pp. The Real Anthony Fauci is an iconoclastic book which slays enough sacred cows to keep McDonald’s
CAUGHT: Money Laundering Cases among Indian Politicians
To summarize India’s path to growth and development, we often say that India is the second-fastest growing economy and the largest democracy in the world. However, do we truly believe that? If we remove the numbers and see a visual
The War Party Wants a New Cold War, and the Money that Comes with It
In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending." Using the Beijing Olympics and the potential Ukraine War to push for
This Is How the Progressives Will Write the History of Covid
It seems obvious that wherever vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns have been imposed in response to covid-19, progressive political and media elites have been the driving forces behind them. This is clear to those of us alive today, but it
Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004
As an American historian who knows something of economic law, having learned from the Austrians, I became intrigued with how the United States had remained prosperous, its economy still so dynamic and productive, given the serious and recurring economic fallacies
Is Economics Sexist?
A recent New York Times article featuring economist Stephanie Kelton and her (disastrously misguided) book on Modern Monetary Theory garnered criticisms, but not from the usual sources. No less than economist Larry Summers, former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, weighed