While we experience the predictable economic consequences of bad economic policies, the two main presidential candidates seem to be competing in an unspoken contest to demonstrate profound economic illiteracy. Unfortunately, whoever wins in this contest, we lose.
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Ezra Wyrick is a Rockwood, Tennessee, native , a first-generation high school graduate {homeschooled}, Director of Communications for the Liberty Youth Coalition {LYC}, Editor-in-Chief of Mises Magazine, and also a 2023 Mises University alumni. He is involved in forthcoming legislative accountability efforts in Tennessee and is passionate about personal civil liberties and a restrained approach to governance - emphasizing individualism.
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The 2024 Presidential election appears to be a showdown between two major party candidates vying to display the most evident lack of understanding of economics. On one hand, Donald Trump advocates for...
Since Adam Smith, economic thinkers have failed to understand that profits in a market economy are not extractions of wealth from laborers. In truth, profits lead to higher wages and higher living standards for those workers.
