10 Right Wing Economic Misconceptions

Given the actions of the Federal Reserve, particularly over the last twenty years or so, we have become accustomed to the fixing of interest rates as normal. Indeed, there appear to be benefits for many from such policies, at least in the near term. After all, given mortgage rates as low as 2% to 3%,…

5. Value Value is subjective. A bottle of water is worth a lot more to a man dying of thirst in the desert than it is to the man who lives next to a natural spring. When a natural disaster hits, the media often chastises those who bring in water and food from outside areas…

Outsourcing — sending manufacturing or services work abroad where it can be done more cheaply — can be a tough sell in the best of times. It’s even more of a challenge when jobs in the U.S. are already hard to find, making it painful to think of precious jobs being shipped overseas. If only…

We hear about it all the time. After a natural disaster, or during times of civil unrest such that transpired recently in Ferguson, businesses price gouge items in high demand. Water or a ride away from a dangerous area become expensive commodities. The instinct is to chastise such actions as immoral and selfish. But a…

Photo by levanrami Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) Another man who was greatly shaped by his experience in World War I, F A Hayek was born in Vienna, Austria, and served in the Austro-Hungarian artillery on the Italian front. Calling the war a “decisive influence” that was “bound to draw your attention to the problem of political…