economics

P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 15, 2019
Last fall, I suffered through a conversation with a teacher who wanted me to include a dose of drivel from “federal education standards” in my…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 9, 2019
  Recently Released Labor Department data shows that the unemployment rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6% at the close of the first quarter of 2019 (the…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 3, 2019
Most of us are familiar with that business expression, “the customer is always right.” But in the day-to-day tumult of political disputation, some…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 1, 2019
  One of the key points about collectivism I stress to students is the fact that every form of collectivism, be it “socialism”, “communism”, or…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 26, 2019
Here’s a story that might prompt some of your leftist friends to argue before they get the deeper point. The Royal Canadian Mint just revealed…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 11, 2019
When I lecture in the field of political economics, I often discuss an important clause in the supposed rulebook of the US Constitution called…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 5, 2019
History has shown that when they need cash – which is always – politicians won’t operate like business people. They won’t offer things in…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 29, 2019
On Feb 13, I reported on the passage by the New Jersey legislature of the so-called “Rain Tax,” a law that allows local municipalities to literally…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 22, 2019
In the wake of the March 19 mass murder in Christchurch, New Zealand, many leftists are making moves to shut down free speech. The NZ government has…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 27, 2019
Incredible. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s media-adored “Green New Deal” is estimated to cost $90 trillion, even after her office excised from it…
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West | February 25, 2019
The problem with socialism is that it is socialism. It does not matter if it is being touted by Karl Marx, Friderich Engels, Vladimir Lenin,…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 19, 2019
We know this is no laughing matter. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D. NY) “Green New Deal” is adored by the pop media, the same pop…