This article investigates the veracity of three claims made by current and former government officials in the context of the 2023 debt-ceiling debates.

Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don‘t want to follow the company‘s rules are now appealing to US antitrust law to force Birkin to bend to their wishes. This is more evidence of the bankruptcy of

Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They are Rothbard’s “court historians” with degrees in economics instead of history.

The Fed wants independence so it can serve the interests of the banker class. There is no higher principle here. There is only power.

Congress ought to at least teach Powell, the Fed, and its banker friends a few much-needed lessons.

Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.

Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.

Is the price premium proposed by Irving Fisher an incoherent concept, as Rothbard argued? Hansen suggests a Mises-Rothbard premium based on the Cantillon effect to explain persistently low interest rates.