Monthly Archives: July 2015
Kids, Cars, and a Campus Coma: FREE-MARKET GEMS
We Don’t Have Health Insurance . . . No one does anymore, and Jim Fedako of the Mises Institute explains why. Campus Confusion (3:00) . . . Professor Rob Gressis discusses taxation, charity, and the use of force with the students … Continue reading
MMA, Uber, and Greeks: FREE-MARKET GEMS
MMA in NYC? . . . Not if the unions have their way. Legal in 49 states, and considered the fasting growing sport in the world, mixed martial arts has always been, and still is, illegal in New York. But … Continue reading
Gulags and Gandy Dancers: FREE-MARKET GEMS
The Broken Window Fallacy . . . Good logic has been knocking it down for a long time. Now empirical research takes a shot at this most disastrous of Keynesian presuppositions. Austerity Starts with Gov’t Budgets . . . John … Continue reading
Dinos, Nannies, and Knickers: FREE-MARKET GEMS
A Jurassic-World What-If . . . Why things wouldn’t get out of hand if capitalists (boring, conservative, opportunity-cost-watching capitalists) really ran the park. Good economics that would make a really bad movie. A Ban on Smoking Research? (1:30) . . … Continue reading
Bubbles and the Brown Bomber: FREE-MARKET GEMS
The Next Bubble? . . . Even amid nation-wide funding cuts, college campuses are building like mad. So who’s footing the bill? Easy: Anyone paying the tuition rates that have risen 4 times faster than inflation over the past 30 … Continue reading