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What would happen if local governments had a lot more control over policy? Some localities could lower taxes and provide fewer services, while others could do the opposite. Local school boards could have much greater control over curricula and measuring outcomes. And many aspects of the culture wars could be settled at a level where far more consensus likely exists.
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Market advocates have a golden opportunity to not only reign in federal spending but to introduce much-needed privatization in the infrastructure sector.
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Government monetary policy was not invented to help the everyday person but instead to benefit the government and its connected interests, “the swindlers.”
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It’s time to put a final close on the era of government hegemony over our lives. There need never be another drama over closings of government offices. Shut them down for good. Sell the assets. Privatize the services.
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Politicians who ignore pension reform, sapping funds from facilities maintenance, should be replaced. These are real choices for school boards and for taxpayers, between accountability for maintenance and deterioration through thousands of little instances of neglect — choices that could avert situations like the one we see in Baltimore.
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Is there a bubble in the ICO/blockchain startup space? Short answer: yes. Long answer: still yes, but it involves very little of the irrationality most people associate with such things, and shows just how important the underlying blockchain technology truly is.
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Although it’s obvious that eating laundry detergent, drinking way too much sugar, or consistently throwing away plastic isn’t good for you or the environment, it isn’t the job of the government to tell us what to do or how to live.
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The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumer Sentiment fell slightly to 94.4 in early January, down from 95.9 in December, but remains at a relatively high level.
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As an economics and finance professor for 36 years, Donald Chambers writes how — and how not — his students’ values and beliefs depict the ideals that molded America in her early days.
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Blockchain is a technical innovation. But it is not an innovation in how we aspire to live. There is a big difference. The blockchain allows people to achieve something we have always wanted to do but haven’t been able to do until now. The stone money on the island of Yap is an example.
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With a mere whisper about reconsidering their investments in US Treasury bonds, Beijing rattled Wall Street and — if ever so briefly — raised our interest rates.
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The Empire State Manufacturing Survey results tilt to the favorable side but raise enough concerns to warrant close monitoring of data related to the New York regional economy and the manufacturing sector nationwide.
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