money
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Appreciating F. A. Hayek’s Insights on Money and the Business Cycle
by Richard Ebeling July 13, 2021Fears are once again afoot that a new period of rising price inflation is upon us, and with justifiable cause.
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ConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Futile Fusion Research
by Roger H. Bezdek July 12, 2021We must stop wasting money on tokamak fusion, and use it for programs with promise.
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ConstitutionEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPolitics
Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
by Richard Ebeling November 17, 2020Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics?
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EconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPolitics
America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
by Richard Ebeling September 8, 2020The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”
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In a recent survey of business economists, only 4 percent said they expected a recession to begin by the end of the year.
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Health Care
Expanding HSAs Could Help Fix America’s Broken Health Insurance Model
by AnneMarie Schieber June 26, 2019A recent survey revealed only one in five people currently enrolled in an employer-sponsored health plan have a health savings account (HSA). More unsettling, few use them to save money for future health expenses.
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GovernmentLiberty
Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” Shows Us That There’s More to Life Than Money
by Art Carden May 9, 2019On this day in 1943, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead was published. It tells the story of an impoverished architecture school dropout, Howard Roark, and how he navigates—or fails to navigate—the New York architecture scene.
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Wealthy parents buying admission for their children to elite universities.
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Budgets/Taxes
The Negative Income Tax and Income Security in a Complex World
by Clifford Thies February 25, 2019The Daily Caller is running an endearing story about a 56-year old Philadelphia woman who is on disability and who has been endorsed by the city’s Republican Party in their upcoming primary for mayor.
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Budgets/Taxes
Should We Watch Wile E. Coyote Go Off the Cliff?
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield September 18, 2018For generations, one of the great joys in life has been watching Roadrunner cartoons, during which the Roadrunner always manages to find a way to trick Wile E. Coyote into running off a massive cliff.
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EconomicsFeaturedGovernment
Austrian Monetary Theory vs. Federal Reserve Inflation Targeting
by Richard Ebeling August 21, 2017Several major central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have set a goal of two percent price inflation. The problem is, what central bankers are targeting is a phantom that does not exist.
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EconomicsRegulation
The Importance of Free-Market Banking Reforms
by David S. D'Amato December 21, 2016Just how overregulated are America’s banks?
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Budgets/TaxesPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Donald Larson: E-Cigarettes and Regulatory Overreach
by Jesse Hathaway August 31, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Institute’s weekly Budget & Tax News podcast, research fellow and managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Donald Larson, a candidate running to represent Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, about his political campaign’s focus on e-cigarettes and regulatory overreach.