Pertinent Category: Archive

Beware the Lure of Social Engineering

– August 2, 2017

Human dignity, autonomy, and social cooperation are best left to the tender hands of politicians and bureaucrats. Not!

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The Money Mirage

– August 1, 2017

Luring Businessmen, Savers, and Investors To Their Economic Deaths Including as a Supplement: Retirement and Estate Planning During an Age of Inflating

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Say It Ain’t So on Global Financial Regulation, Mr. President

– July 31, 2017

President Trump recently signed a G-20 statement that supports international regulation of U.S. financial institutions, something that flies in the face of his domestic political positions.

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Occupational Licensing Harms Consumers and Producers

– July 28, 2017

The Trump and Obama administrations agree on at least one point: occupational licensure harms Americans both as consumers and as producers.

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Initial Coin Offerings Going Way Beyond Small Change

– July 27, 2017

Trends in crowdfunding and cryptocurrencies are converging into a mechanism catapulting cash-poor young companies and fashioning a new financing landscape.

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What the Market Economy Really Is

– July 27, 2017

What is a market economy? We often talk about it as though it were a thing, perhaps a machine or a vehicle. Business reporters say it heats up or cools down. Sometimes it even gets stuck in a ditch. But it’s not a thing subject to heating or cooling or …

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What Will Inflation and Devaluation Mean to You?

– July 25, 2017

By Donald G. Ferguson, Bion H. Francis, E. C. Harwood, Benjamin D. Manton, and Their Assistants on the Institute Staff Part I Where Does Money Come From, and What Is Inflation? Has the Danger of Inflation Passed? Part II Inflation’s Timing and Warning …

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The Future Is Now: Europe’s Power Market to Start Blockchain Trading This Year

– July 24, 2017

Some of Europe’s biggest electricity operators plan to start trading on a blockchain platform before the end of this year, although a collision with the European Union’s regulatory apparatus remains a possibility. E.ON, Enel, and Engie are among the co …

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An Open Letter to President Nixon

– July 24, 2017

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July Business Conditions Monthly

– July 21, 2017

The AIER Business Cycle Conditions Leaders index fell again in June, to a reading of 75, the second monthly decline in a row. The Coinciders index remained at 100 for a fourth month, while the Laggers index dropped to 58 from 75 in May. All three index …

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Behavioral Economics and the Transactional View

– July 18, 2017

Behavioral Research Council Transactional Viewpoints, Vol. II, No. 1, 2003, Winter Quarterly Letters on the Transactional View, the Sciences and the Arts

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