Interventionism

Nearly everywhere on the planet the giant financial bubbles created by the central banks during the last two decades are fracturing.

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Central planning relies on successfully predicting the future. Unfortunately for central planners, this is an impossible task.

Economics, as we have now seen again and again, is a science of recognizing secondary consequences.

This week, the EU suggested that it would no longer allow English as an official language, and the Irish will speak Gaelic instead.

The GDP framework and the output gap is an abstraction that does little more than provide justification for the interventions of government officials.

Gun control advocates continue to narrowly define the "developed" world in order to make the US seem strange and isolated in this regard.

The EU is a case par excellence illustrating the failure of economic interventionism. Britain would be wise to leave it behind.

Elizabeth Warren wants to help low-income and powerless people. However, she supports interventions that will hurt the people she wants to help.

Henry Hazlitt describes "the open conspiracy" among politicians to refuse to address the national debt.