Posts by Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute, author or editor of over fourteen Independent books, and Founding Editor of Independent’s quarterly journal The Independent Review.
Survey Finds Three of Ten Americans Are Clueless
CBO Report: U.S. Will Go to Hell in 2009
A Horrible, Little-Known Legacy of the Great Depression
This Guy Could Do Standup!
The Best Stimulus Right Now?
The Fed versus the Banks: Who Will Blink First?
Most Absurd Statement Ever Made?
Fair Weather Friends of the Market
An Excellent Analysis of the Financial Debacle
Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect
Will This Man Become the Car Czar?
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Regime Uncertainty in 1937 and 2008
Banking Act of 1935 + Fed’s Exercise of This Authority = New Deal Policy
Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Lies—Or Do I Repeat Myself?
It’s Who You Know
Nonsense about Deflation
Buck Higgs Closer to Becoming a Bank
Need Health Care? Go to Mexico
To Get More of Something (e.g., Unemployment), Subsidize It
Congressional Missed Tackles Cost Taxpayers the Game
Melancholy Days for Investors
World Leaders Meet, Pretend They Have a Clue
The TARP Is Dead, Long Live the TARP
Government Encourages Greater Moral Hazard by Banks

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