Biden and Janet Yellen Are Pushing a Global Minimum Tax Rate. The EU Is Very Pleased.
It has long been a dream of central planners and interventionists to set a global, uniform tax rates for all regimes. These globalists know that so long as sovereign states have the ability to freely set their own tax rates,
Major League Baseball Punishes Georgians for the Acts of a Handful of Politicians
Georgia has new voter laws, and as could have been anticipated, they are polarizing. For the Left, they are infringements akin to Jim Crow; for the Right, they are commonsense reforms to counter voting fraud. The corporate press—never one to
Peter Klein: When Policy-Makers Discover The Benefits of Entrepreneurship, They Can’t Resist Intervening
Innovative entrepreneurship is the segment of the entrepreneurial economy that is especially highly focused on innovation via new products and services. Within innovative entrepreneurship there is an even brighter spotlight on NTBF — new technology-based firms that are cutting edge,
Lockdowns Are More Economically Devastating Than Voluntary Social Distancing
Lockdowns advocates claim fear of the virus is really what kept people home—and has thus led to the economic destruction of the past year. But they also claim that without forced lockdowns, people will quickly go back to normal. Both
Gun Laws and Decentralization: Lessons from “Constitutional Carry”
Forty years ago, the US had almost no legal concealed carry. Then over just a few decades, eighteen states adopted full-blown "constitutional carry" provisions, with many other states adopting concealed carry provisions as well. Original Article: "Gun Laws and Decentralization: Lessons
The Feds Are Pushing Pension Funds toward “Socially Responsible Investing”
Enivronmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, although rooted in an older concept known as “socially responsible investing,” has been more and more on the rise in recent years. Predictably, the Biden administration has paved the way for the Department of
Can Las Vegas Recover from Covid?
In Las Vegas, airline passengers plummeted 64 percent during 2020, and the convention business has collapsed. For Vegas, there are troubling signs that the world is not in a hurry to spend freely on extravagant face-to-face meetings. Original Article: "Can Las
GDP Hides the Damage from the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Government money printing may goose GDP, but It will do nothing to fix the losses that millions have suffered from covid restrictions and lockdowns. Original Article: "GDP Hides the Damage from the Covid-19 Lockdowns" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
Why Postmodernism Is Incompatible with a Politics of Liberty
Several months ago, I debated Thaddeus Russell on The Tom Woods Show. The proposition debated was “Postmodern philosophy is compatible with a politics of individual liberty.” Thaddeus defended the proposition and I opposed it. Here, I want to flesh out
The Economics and Ethics of Government Default, Part III
In the previous installments of this series (part I, part II), I have argued that government default is not only ethical, it is also beneficial to the economy and society as a whole. The one question I left open at