Tweet The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal relays the undeniable news that fiscal realities are not optional. A slice: Say what you will about 2025, the year is off to a rocky start for anyone who needs to figure out how to fund a government. Bond yields are rising across the developed world, raising some awkward questions about when politics will catch up with new economic realities. In the U.S., 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are […]
Doug Bandow Rarely has a politician so completely destroyed his career in so little time. In the space of about six hours, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared and then abandoned martial law. In a country with a long heritage of military rule, he bungled the attempt, as legislators outwitted Special Forces troops deployed to seize the National Assembly building and “drag out the people” by voting to overturn his decision. His attempt to override political opposition to […]
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Doug Bandow The U.S. announced Thursday it will provide another round of security assistance to Ukraine including weapons and equipment totaling around $500 million. But, as Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, notes in an article in The American Conservative, more support won’t fix what Ukraine needs most: manpower. He also provides the inconsistent arguments the U.S. uses to justify the continuing war. Bandow also commented recently on how President-elect Donald Trump can avoid furthering […]
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The capitalism we have today is failing society because it prioritizes profit over people. Since the 1980s, we’ve embraced a system built on deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, and privatization. The result? Widening inequality, stagnant wages, and corporate power that dwarfs the influence of everyday citizens. Meanwhile, public services crumble, and workers bear the brunt of unstable markets. This “hands-off” approach to capitalism has left us with a system where the rich get richer, the poor get […]
Tweet … is from page 12 of Russell Sobel’s and Jason Clemens’s excellent 2020 book, The Essential Joseph Schumpeter: Profits and losses play an important role in an economy. As entrepre- neurs sift through the many possible new combinations of resources, it is the profit-and-loss system that informs and guides this process of discovery. It is often a process of trial and error. Adding to the complexity of this process is that the target is an ever-changing one, […]
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