Should I Keep Fighting the Ex-Im Bank or Give Up?
This week, I was invited to testify before the Board of Advisors of The United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM). Whatever their reasons, I commend them for having me for a stimulating conversation. As many of you know, I have been and remain an a …
Veronique de Rugy – January 26, 2020
Reciprocity in Occupational Licensure Might Be a Bad Idea
On April 10, 2019 Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law HB 2569, a bill to create “guaranteed recognition” of occupational licenses in other states. This was hailed as a great victory by libertarians and classical liberals who have always argued …
Should We All Be Flying Less?
I have long been a fan of the writer, statistician, and “flaneur” of financial markets Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His eye for the unseen and his heavy emphasis on sample selections and randomness in the world always struck a chord with my basically Misesia …
The Four Pillars of Economic Understanding
It is no exaggeration to say that learning economics changed my life. In fact, I would go as far as saying the two most pivotal moments of my young adulthood was meeting my future wife at 17 and being exposed to economics at 19. Not only pivotal, …
Is “Sustainable Fish” Real or a Marketing Ploy?
So, yes, I’ve stopped rolling my eyes at the label sustainable. It’s real and it matters. And it shows how markets work even when the odds are against them. What other problems are considered to be insoluble that we need to turn over to the creative forces of society itself?
Macroeconomic Inferences and the New Fed Regime
Under what conditions can we make valid inferences about the state of the economy from macroeconomic data? As it turns out, this seemingly unproblematic procedure becomes difficult when policy makers have got their eye on the data, too. This applies to …
Why Aren’t Anti-Money-Laundering Regulations Adjusted for Inflation?
Banks and other financial institutions are required by law to implement measures for catching money launderers. Over the decades, these obligations have been getting more onerous due to new rules and the tightening of existing rules. They have also bec …
Who Was Bastiat? Interview with David Hart (Video)
David Hart is an historian and a libertarian with interests in the history of the classical liberal tradition (especially the French), war and culture, libertarian class theory, and film. Frédéric Bastiat was a pivotal figure in French classical libera …
Existing-Home Sales Rose in December But Inventory Remains Tight
Existing-home sales have recovered from a recent dip but are unlikely to move significantly higher in coming months and quarters.
When Perfect Correlations Dissolve Into Dust
Statistical relations can be tenuous, and statistics can be fishy. Perhaps with time, Harvey’s yield curve relation will go the way of pedestrians and South Dakota lawyers — a near-perfect correlation dissolving into dust.
Bitcoin Is Quantitatively Tightening
In light of the broader field of monetary policy worldwide, the upcoming Halvening will come at a particularly auspicious juncture.
How Trumpism Swallowed Conservatism
In the summer of 2015, Donald Trump came to FreedomFest in Las Vegas – an event for conservatives and libertarians – as an eccentric outsider. Almost a gate crasher. People wondered why he was there. He presented his message of protectionism and immigr …
The Academic Truce Has Crumbled
In the late 1960s academia, and particularly the humanities, began to embrace a variety of political causes and incorporate them more overtly into their scholarship. This shift coincided with curricular and intellectual developments that re-envisioned …
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