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[Editor’s Note: this piece was first published by Mises Canada here http://mises.ca/posts/blog/does-walmart-prove-minimum-wage-laws-will-help-workers/] In a recent column Paul Krugman has one of the most curious arguments…
Pyongyang, evidence shows, effected a spectacular data breach of Sony Pictures to express its wrath over Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogan’s The Interview, a…
What the media calls a “currency war,” whereby nations engage in competitive currency devaluations in order to increase exports, is really “currency suicide.” National…
The 2,500 seat Eastown Theatre hosted The Who and The Kinks. The Cass Tech High School taught Diana Ross and John DeLorean. Michigan Central…
In his New York Times article of May 7, columnist Bruce Bartlett laments that given the current state of economic affairs we need more…
It’s official: global economic policy is now firmly in the hands of money cranks. The lesson from the events of 2007-2008 should have been…
Before we really get into the detail this week, let us just deal with one simple canard: this idea that if the US Congress…
Episode 86: Professor Patrick Barron is an Austrian School economist who teaches courses in banking and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the…
Under President Obama the debt of the United States government has grown by about 50%, and now stands at close to $16 trillion. Every…
Recently, someone left a comment on a post here along the lines of: “What’s your problem with Keynes?” One of the replies mentioned Hazlitt’s…