“More importantly, if you care about improving the quality of life and living standards over time, the essential question is always about creating broad-based, sustainable economic growth. What are the conditions that are most likely to help the economy get …
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The Grumpy Economist: Volalitily, now the whole thing
WONK ALERT! And now for the meaty post of the week! Seriously, this is a fantastic piece by The Grump Economist, John H. Cochrane, senior fellow at The Hoover Institute. Here’s a sneak preview: What’s causing the big drop in …
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The Continuing Success of Switzerland’s Spending Cap | International Liberty
“Governments should copy Switzerland and impose a spending cap. I explained this system in a column for the Wall Street Journal back in 2012.” …85% of its voters approved an initiative that effectively requires its central government spending to grow …
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Rand Paul Blasts Republicans for Repealing Obamacare with Budget – YouTube
Great tutorial that can get you up-to-speed on the budget and how it won’t balance under current trajectory. Senator Paul explains a simple way to balance and control the debt.
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Comparing the cost of living between 1975 and 2015: You are being lied and fooled when it comes to inflation data and the cost of living.
Inflation is widely misunderstood by the public. Even economists tend to have a hard time coming to a general agreement to the true definition of inflation. When you ask the person on the street what inflation is they usually respond …
America Has Forgotten Some Important Founding Principles …The Swiss Have Embraced Them
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/switzerlands-improbable-success-and-the-important-role-of-federalism/
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Democracy’s Death Spiral – John C. Goodman
It works like this: Politicians find it in their self-interest to take from Peter and give to Paul, whenever Paul can offer more political support than Peter – in the form of votes, campaign contributions, get-out-the-vote efforts, etc. But as …
