Celebrate Freedom
Please join the Show-Me Institute and the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University in the fourth annual...
Capital Before Credit
A recent article in the St. Louis Beacon posed a question to local economists that is being tossed around globally:...
Government: No Costs, All Benefits
Government has no costs — only benefits — according to several professors in economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City,...
Is Debt in the CARDs for You?
Last month, the CARD (Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure) Act went into effect, after having been signed into law...
IRS Commissioners Should Have to Do Their Own Taxes
The Drudge Report linked to a story from The Hill about the not-surprising admission that the new IRS commissioner does...
Don’t Overreact to Bumps in the Economic Recovery
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. Determining when business cycles start and end is a tricky call....
No False Modesty on Government Websites
Financialstability.gov no longer says “Coming Soon.” Now it reads like any other campaign website: America is back from the brink...
Fed’s Independence Vital for a Stable Economy
CBS’s moneywatch.com site recently released an article by Mark Thoma on the independence of the Federal Reserve, and those very...
Snow White and the Seven Gift Cards
The Federal Reserve, like a knight in shining armor, is riding forth to protect consumers from a fearsome dragon: gift...
Intriguing, Yet Frightening, Comment Over at Political Fix
Below is the full text of a comment from a blog post over at the Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix blog. It...
In Awe of Freedom
One of the problems with advocating market solutions and disparaging government solutions is a complaint often uttered by free-market advocates,...
Prop. M Would Help Fund, Expand Crucial Alternative to Highway System
Next week, the citizens of Saint Louis County have the opportunity to invest in the future. Passage of Proposition M...
Vice Presidents and Lieutenant Governors: Should They Be Abolished?
An op-ed in the LA Times (link via Freakonomics) advocates that we abolish the position of vice president. As I...
Terrible Economics in Poll on Stltoday.com
I know Internet polls are just for fun, and one should not read anything into them, but that does not...
Some Senators Should Stop the Stupid Stimulus
Ahh, alliteration, the simple pleasure of a poetic mind. This post really doesn’t have anything to do with the Senate...
Trouble … With a Capital T
And that rhymes with P, and that stands for Poole. Bill Poole, that is, president of the St. Louis Federal...
Milton and Money Stock Control
Read this article at theFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. View a brief video commemoratingMilton Friedman, hosted by thepresident...
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