Category: Economy

In his 1933 lecture at the London School of Economics titled The Trend of Economic Thinking, Frederich Hayek identified a shift in economic thought toward planning and interventionism. He argued that the German Historical School and the institutionalists were major contributors to this trend. However, what actually laid the foundation for planning and interventionism in…

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump) total control over the executive branch is a recipe for tyranny — for a king who rules by whim and will alone.”  To which…

The surest way to ruin a bipartisan dinner party is to say the words “unitary executive.” Liberals are likely to respond: “To give a president (especially one as capricious as Trump) total control over the executive branch is a recipe for tyranny — for a king who rules by whim and will alone.”  To which…

In his 1933 lecture at the London School of Economics titled The Trend of Economic Thinking, Frederich Hayek identified a shift in economic thought toward planning and interventionism. He argued that the German Historical School and the institutionalists were major contributors to this trend. However, what actually laid the foundation for planning and interventionism in…

The Colorado state legislature is considering a bill that would radically chill parents’ speech. Dubbed the “Kelly Loving Act,” the bill, if signed into law, would empower judges to consider “deadnaming” and “misgendering” your child to be types of “coercive control” when they’re making custody decisions. In simple terms: if your child gender transitions and…

This article is a continuation of A Brief History of the Panama Canal. As the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, the French were looking for a buyer for their failed Panama Canal project, asking for $109 million, well less than half their cost. The United States, toying with the possibility of constructing a canal…

Gold has won the competition — a plebiscite as long-running as established civilizations — to be crowned mankind’s universal choice as a store of value and medium of exchange — as real money. Now, in less than two decades, a potential competitor has arisen: Bitcoin, with the arguable potential to rival and even supersede gold.  …

Washington, DC — Dr. Ryan Yonk, Director of Education and Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), testified Wednesday before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy, offering critical analysis of the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO). Created under the 2005 Energy Policy Act,…