Way back in the Big Band Era, even before my time, the Mills Brothers did a song called “You always hurt the one you love.” The political Left in America should resurrect it and make…
Topic: economics
How the British Can Leave the EU
This probably won’t be covered in many International Relations courses. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) issued a study that outlines a roadmap for the United Kingdom’s (UK) exit from the European Union (EU), entitled “Cutting…
Are Universities and Economic Growth Oxymoronic?
It was while attending my alma mater—the University of Scranton—three and a half decades ago that I began questioning the economic value of universities. What intrigued me was “Da U” claiming that it helped fuel…
Do colleges + universities=economic growth?
Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have scientific proof, or do they? “We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between…
Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion
Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial stability or common sense. This from Reason: Clinton is doing more of the same here,…
Peter Schiff On Inflation and the Fed
The Federal Reserve trumpets inflation as a sign of economic growth, but economist and media personality Peter Schiff told AIM that “…it wasn’t always the case that central banks were talking about how great inflation…
Peter Schiff Warns About the “Worst Economic Downturn Including the Great Depression”
The Federal Reserve’s monetary policies have manufactured a “super bubble” that “ … may give us the worst economic downturn including the Great Depression,” economist Peter Schiff declared during an interview with Accuracy in Media….
On Exam, “Income Redistribution” is Listed as a Government Function
Um, no it isn’t. Maybe in a socialist state it is, but not in the U.S.: The role of government is to redistribute wealth, according to a course at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. A…
Economist Mark Skousen Explains Gross Output
Despite the theory purveyed by the media, consumer spending is not the strongest catalyst of economic expansion, according to economist Mark Skousen, author of The Structure of Production. “…Because consumer spending represents…two thirds basically of…
Sanders Misleads Students on Scandinavian Socialism
His collegiate followers are receptive to Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders exhortations that the United States should be more like Sweden and its Scandinavian neighbors. Yet and still, the self-identified socialist should be careful what…