…2008. As a result, TBTF banks can borrow money at lower interest rates than would be possible in a free market. …To take another easy example, drug patents raise the…

…In some circles, one is likely to see a variant of the claim that “everybody” is better off because of freer trade. Even according to the most mainstream economic theory,…

…free till the economy improves, “to show willing,” as the Brits say. But the losses they would court – loss of unemployment support, loss of time for real job search…

…and looked at the changes in real (inflation-adjusted) GDP per capita over the last forty years. Which I share with you here. Feel free to cherry-pick at will. (Click for…

I found this link in Sitemeter and am in a quixotic mood. I couldn’t resist chasing it down as I wondered what Free Republic was and how Mike’s material could…

…accumulating over time in the IRa without tax. If beneficiaries are allowed to keep it in the IRA and continue the tax-free growth over most of their productive lives as…

…law, generally, and “corporate personhood” in a constitutional-rights sense. Hartmann, like so many others who are appropriately outraged by Citizens United and earlier corporate-free-speech Supreme Court opinions, clearly intends his…

…forced to pay the penalty for failing to buy medical insurance.) But there are exceptions, mainly in First Amendment cases—free speech, free assembly, free exercise of religion—and in certain other…

…definition. GDP=GDP, as it were. P = Price Level. This is slightly more difficult conceptually, because we aren’t going to include everything. But if we assume (short-term) that the “market…

…The idea of the “free market” is a bill of goods sold to replace the real concepts of freedom we should be considering. Markets, of course, can only function well…