A line in a recent National Post news story left me aghast: “Economists are nearly unanimous in their support for the $381-billion deficit Ottawa plans to run in 2021.” One of Canada’s more reasonable newspapers, founded by Conrad Black, published the outlandish notion

By some theories such as the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), money originated on account of the government decree. Money according to the MMT is what the State decides it is going to be. Following the ideas of the German economist, Georg

All students of economics will sooner or later be confronted with the standard neoclassical analysis of deadweight loss from taxation. The point of this analysis is not to clarify what the government's tax revenues should be used for, but rather

Murray Rothbard died more than a quarter century before the outbreak of the Covid mania and tyranny, but if he were alive today, he wouldn’t be surprised to see the most common resistance at an institutional level comes from churches. Last

The year 1982 was life changing for me. It also was the year that I met Murray Rothbard and toured what then was East Berlin with him and his wife—and a host of others. And thanks to Rothbard and others

The European Union, at least in theory, is designed to allow residents to avail themselves of what are traditionally known as the “Four Fundamental Freedoms.” These are usually defined as the freedom of movement of goods, labor, services, and capital within

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently reported the results of a large-scale nationwide trial in Israel of the Pfizer covid vaccine, BNT162b2. The study concludes that the vaccine has high effectiveness against covid. The NEJM has a reputation

It was 1995, and I was a young scholar, an assistant professor of history of political thought at Roma Tre University. My professor encouraged me to study the American feminist movement of the nineteenth century. As young scholars usually do,

Taxes have a long reign near the top of discussion topics. But it can be striking how much nonsense and confusion is both advanced and accepted about taxation. A good way to understand some of the basics of taxation better is