By: Ryan McMaken Money supply growth slowed in January, falling to the second-lowest rate recorded since February of last year. Overall, money-supply growth remains well below the growth rates experienced from 2009 to 2016, and has fluctuated little since March of last year In January, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 3.3 percent. […]
Austrian Economics
Is AOC’s claim that New York gave Amazon $3 billion correct?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says a lot of… well, let’s just follow our grandmother’s advice that when you have nothing nice to say then don’t say it at all. AOC’s recently claimed that New York gave Amazon $3 billion to erect its second headquarters, which comes as the website pulled out from building its HQ2 […]
Selling capitalism, not demonizing socialism, is the way to go
By: Jeff Charles There was a time when “socialism” was an ugly word, one with which no sane American would want to be affiliated. The term conjured stark images of gulags, food lines, and the brutal oppression typically associated with Soviet Russia and Cuba under the Castro regime. But it appears that times have changed, and not for the […]
GOOD NEWS: Poll finds support for capitalism is twice as high as socialism
The rumors of capitalism’s death have been greatly exaggerated. For the last few years, the polls have found increasing support for socialism and growing disapproval for capitalism (SEE: Study: Half of U.S. millennials want to live under socialism, 18% say Karl Marx is their ‘hero’). This has led many to believe that capitalism is dying […]
GREEN NEW DEAL: AOC and the Green Great Leap Forward
By: William Anderson In what its supporters have claimed is “visionary,” the congressional media darling, Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) has released her short-awaited Green New Deal , and she has called for nothing short of destruction of life as we have known it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has no qualms about acknowledging a so-called “Green New Deal” […]