The Student Loan Shell Game: Young Americans Will Soon Realize Debt Forgiveness Isn’t a Good Deal
In the shell game, a street corner huckster places a ball underneath one of three cups. Then after moving the...
The Government Is Not Only Spending Trillions — It’s Losing Trillions
Lately, no matter if the federal government is spending taxpayer dollars or losing them, it doesn’t mess around with small...
Money Flooding Into US From Overseas
Money from overseas is pouring into the US capital markets, which foreign investors regard as a haven in a world...
Price Controls Have Failed for 4,000 Years—and Humans Still Haven’t Learned
The people of ancient Eshnunna can be forgiven for not understanding why price controls are harmful. Today’s policymakers, who have...
Are Cryptoassets The Great Scam?
At the New York Times, Paul Krugman writes that cryptoassets are a “Great Scam,” with all cryptoassets worthless. He even...
Economies and War
The American economy, the largest and most dynamic in the world, is a geopolitical issue. And right now, it is...
In the Beginning: The Mont Pelerin Society, 1947
Seventy-five years ago, there occurred an important event in the post–World War II revival of free-market liberal ideas. Over the...
Who Was Frederic Bastiat?
The Bastiat Society is a global network and outreach program of the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) committed to...
