Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments
The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania.
The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania.
Government interference into money creation and production harms the economy in a number of ways, including skewing the organization of division of labor.
Public health agencies tend to be treated like authoritative sacred cows. In reality, they have politicized health policies to the point where they really are a health hazard.
The whole system of priorities, allocations, quotas, and licenses causes endless delays, keeps efficient concerns from expanding, and keeps inefficient concerns in business.
The Act gave the secretary of the Treasury the power to require all individuals and corporations to hand over all their gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates if in his judgment "such action is necessary to protect the currency system of the United States."
As the economy moves into recession, we should understand how we got there and what is needed to bring about a quick and lasting recovery.
As the economy moves into recession, government and Fed officials will increase intervention. If they want an economic recovery, the best course is to permit free markets to work.
The radicals are for anything that tends directly or indirectly to get the government into business, for that leads to state ownership of the means of production.
"All of Keynesian thinking is a tissue of distortions, fallacies, and drastically unrealistic assumptions."