Tam Alex

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How Nigeria’s Central Bank Inflates the Money Supply

11/10/2021 Mises Wire Tam Alex Adedamola Ogunbewon

In April 2021 the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, said that the federal government printed an additional NGN 60 billion (60 billion naira) to be shared between all the states at the Federation...

It Belongs to Me! A Libertarian Analysis of Property Rights in Nigeria

07/15/2021 Journal of Libertarian Studies Tam Alex

ABSTRACT: In this article the nature of private property rights in Nigeria is analyzed and a case is made for basing property rights in natural rights libertarian political philosophy. The issues of...

How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable

07/08/2020 Mises Wire Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. In Economic Facts and Fallacies (2011), Thomas Sowell argues that housing regulation and zoning laws, not markets, are to blame for the modern...

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How Nigeria’s Central Bank Inflates the Money Supply

11/18/2021 Tam Alex Adedamola Ogunbewon

The Nigerian central bank uses all the same tools as other central banks. And it uses them a lot.

How Government Regulations Make Housing Unaffordable

07/16/2020 Mitchell Harvey Tam Alex

The story of how housing became so unaffordable for so many is a tragic one. But this is a story of our own making, thanks to decades of misguided government regulations.

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