Jane L. Johnson

Articles

12/17/2024 Mises Wire Jane L. Johnson

Americans regularly complain about wait times to obtain medical appointments, especially with primary care physicians and certain specialists. Waiting several weeks or a couple of months for an...

Why It’s Time To Abolish the Department of Education

12/02/2024 Mises Wire Jane L. Johnson

Ryan McMaken makes a convincing case on Mises Wire for abolishing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But DHS is not the only executive branch cabinet department that has been occasionally...

Climate Anxiety: A Regime-Created “Illness”

11/25/2024 Mises Wire Jane L. Johnson

A quick internet search for “climate anxiety,” which is also often referred to as “eco-anxiety,” “eco-grief,” or “climate doom,” produces numerous links to the psychological and psychiatric literature...

Media

The American Addiction to Transfer Payments

12/18/2024 Jane L. Johnson

Original article: The American Addiction to Transfer Payments

No Matter the Form, Easy Money Is Still a Fraud

11/11/2024 Jane L. Johnson

Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot flourish unless market prices, private property rights, and profits and losses are unhampered.

“I Have Bills to Pay,” Or Why the Fed Really Cut Interest Rates

10/18/2024 Jane L. Johnson

What if we could have eavesdropped on a conversation between Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen? It might have gone as follows....

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