David J. Bier
Emily Ekins On this Constitution Day, 236 years after the US Constitution was ratified, Americans continue to express high regard for this monumental document. However, most worry about how it is currently being followed. A national survey of 2,000 Americans the Cato Institute conducted with YouGov found
Jeffrey A. Singer
Both economists and laypeople carelessly refer to interest rates as the "price" of money. As Austrian economists have pointed out, however, interest is what people are willing to pay to control resources at the present time instead of waiting until later, time preference.
If the government really believed you would be better off and more prosperous with their policies, they would encourage free speech because everyone would value their welfare improvements. They need to limit free speech because they know they will make you poorer.
With this latest policy turn, the evidence continues to mount that Milei is more a typical conservative or "rightist" than he is a free-market libertarian in any meaningful sense.