Escaping Russia’s Military Draft Is an Act of Self-Defense
Over the past two weeks, Poland and the Baltic states have all closed their borders to most Russians seeking to cross the border, especially those traveling on tourist visas. The ban on Russian travelers (so far) does not restrict Russians
James Kent: Carving A Differentiated Growth Space In A Well-Established Market
Entrepreneurs always generate new value for customers; that’s what they get paid for. It’s not always necessary to create a new market; there are many creative ways to expand the value potential of established markets and carve out a territory
Student Loan Forgiveness Treats the Symptom, Not the Disease
There is no doubt that Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will help the people it is intended to help at everyone else’s expense, as critics correctly point out. The bigger issue is that it does absolutely nothing to lower the
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Seeing the Student Loan Crisis as a Form of Boom and Bust
Conservatives have missed the point that it is not students particularly that are at fault for the student loan crises, but the entire bureaucratic economic-political system. Original Article: "Seeing the Student Loan Crisis as a Form of Boom and Bust" This Audio
Obama’s Forgotten Child Hunger Debacle
At a White House summit tomorrow, President Joe Biden will repeat his proclamation of a goal to end hunger in America by 2030. In 1969, President Richard Nixon promised to end hunger at a similar White House summit. The vast
Genuine Recovery Is Up to Investors, Producers, and Consumer Choice
So-called recession and recovery are false metrics. The falsity comes from focusing on the total earned by all people, not the total earned on average by a given individual. If in total, people earn one percent more, but in total, the
The Other Immigration Question: Should People from Wealthy Countries Migrate to Poorer Ones?
While people from poor countries seek to live in places like the USA because of its stable institutions and welfare state, could migration of people from stable countries to less-developed ones make those countries better off? Original Article: "The Other Immigration
How to Think about Economic Theory
[Chapter 2 of Per Bylund's new book How to Think about the Economy: A Primer.] Like other sciences and fields of study, economics is a body of theory. Theory is a collection of explanations that allows us to understand something. Economic
Eat or Heat: Europeans Already Are Facing Previously Unthinkable Dilemmas
As the citizens of the European Union and the United Kingdom are increasingly struggling to make ends meet due to record levels of inflation, and as the winter draws closer, a serious cost of living crisis is set to spiral