Bernie Sanders Wants To Use Democrats’ Midterm Victory To Expand Medicare. Has He Looked at Europe?
11 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: health insurance
Sanders wants to expand government-funded health care, even as European countries struggle with rising costs, lengthy waiting lists, and shortages.
Bernie Sanders Wants To Use Democrats’ Midterm Victory To Expand Medicare. Has He Looked at Europe?
*Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets*
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
That is the new and forthcoming book from Bryan Caplan, University of Chicago Press. Excerpt: Real-world free markets deliver one broad benefit that flies under the radar of economic theory: They shield humanity from its own Social Desirability Bias. Markets do the good things that sounds bad. Good things like driving incompetent, unresponsive, and obsolete…
*Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets*
Isabella Weber’s “Anti-Fascist Economics”
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
My review for the Washington Post
Isabella Weber’s “Anti-Fascist Economics”
Javier Milei’s Free-Market Policies Are Delivering Real Social Justice
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economics of regulation, economics of religion, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Argentina
Earlier this year, I wrote about Javier Milei’ pro-market reforms leading to a reduction in poverty. The indigence rate also has declined. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the numbers for poverty and indigence rose in the first half of this year, but both numbers are still well below where they were […]
Javier Milei’s Free-Market Policies Are Delivering Real Social Justice
Labor Unions Won Big on Election Day, With Ballot Initiatives and Friendly Politicians
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, property rights, unions
From the East Coast to the Midwest to the West, unions are celebrating.
Labor Unions Won Big on Election Day, With Ballot Initiatives and Friendly Politicians
The Democrats Move to Nullify the Electoral College Before the 2028 Election
10 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
Below is my column in Fox.com on the move by Democrats to change the Electoral College before the 2028 election.…
The Democrats Move to Nullify the Electoral College Before the 2028 Election
Bill Maher on the midterms
09 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in television, TV shows
Maher begins by analogizing the midterms to the World Series victory of the Milwaukee Brewers, a team with one of the smallest budgets in Major League Baseball. They won, say sMaher, because they “know how to deal,” trading away good players for even better players. Maher says that the key to both Republican and Democratic…
Bill Maher on the midterms
Two overhangs, but for different reasons
09 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
Te Pāti Māori announced in August that they did not want party votes. They explicitly said they want to create overhang. Their MPs did not even party vote for TPM. And their strategy worked. In 2023 they got 3.1%. In 2026 they got 0.6%. That is an 80% reduction in their party vote, or a…
Two overhangs, but for different reasons
New Democratic Senate Spells Doom for Trump’s Judicial Nominees
09 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitutional law
The Senate’s new Democratic majority is unlikely to approve any Republican judges.
New Democratic Senate Spells Doom for Trump’s Judicial Nominees
A New Theory of the Just Price
09 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, market efficiency, Rawls and Nozick
I’ve got a new paper out at Economics & Philosophy, titled “The Just Price: A Market-Process Account” (open access). Here’s the main idea. 701 more words
A New Theory of the Just Price
Thomas Sowell and William Buckley
08 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, Thomas Sowell
TweetI assumed that I had already shared here at Cafe Hayek this recording of a 1983 appearance of Thomas Sowell on William Buckley’s Firing Line (with an appearance also by Robert Lekachman). My assumption is mistaken. I now remedy this oversight. The post Thomas Sowell and William Buckley appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
Thomas Sowell and William Buckley
Alabama Voters Put Pledge of Allegiance, School Prayer in the State Constitution
08 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion
The amendment requires school boards to authorize student-led prayer in public schools, renewing questions about the separation of church and state.
Alabama Voters Put Pledge of Allegiance, School Prayer in the State Constitution
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
08 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics
Is Net Zero increasingly coming down to earth? Little by little, the driving force behind Government policies seems to be throttling back. The post Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force?
07 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: Iran
One reads and hears so many times that Iran was on the path to democracy until a CIA coup installed the Shah in 1953. It turns out that account is quite wrong, as is detailed by Simon Sebag Montefiore: As his support in the Majlis ebbed, Mosaddegh demanded autocratic powers. Both the shah and Majlis…
Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force?
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