By: Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna The enigmatic independence of Switzerland is perhaps best demonstrated in the fact that its healthcare system manages to satisfy both free marketers and the statist-socialists in the country. It is a giant social safety net woven by individual responsibility and self-made wealth. Health insurance is almost entirely consumer-based, though there are strict cantonal […]
Archives for October 2017
6 random things for Friday (JFK assassination, statists, ‘Useful Idiots’)
News Story of the Day: some JFK assassination CIA records have been published, but many have still yet to be released. The documents that have been published aren’t too surprising, but they do confirm many suspicions and the claims made over the years. Some of them include President Lyndon Baines John was a member of […]
FAIL: Boston pizza shop paying a ‘fair wage’, sharing profits shuts down
You have to tip your hat to their gumption. Dudley Dough, a pizza shop owned by a non-profit organization known as Haley House, received widespread media attention, a $100,000 donation from the owner of the New England Patriots and praise from the Fight for $15 crowd. Why? Because it decided to pay its workers an […]
The Latest Innovation in Inflation Targeting
By: John Chapman In 2016, I wrote a piece at mises.org highly critical of inflation targeting. At that time the idea of a 2% inflation target was fast becoming mainstream. Since then it has become a routine yardstick for assessing economic policies.1 It was a hit with politicians, liberal economists, and borrowers around the world because with inflation running […]
Donald Trump says Janet Yellen ‘is very impressive’, likes her a lot
President Donald Trump’s nomination for the next Federal Reserve Chair has come down to two or three people. Although the market seems to think it’s former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh or current Fed Governor Jerome Powell, the president may have dropped a hint in a recent interview. Speaking with Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs on […]