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Oct 31, 2024 | 
lubbockonline.com | Alexander I. Salter
By Alexander SalterSpecial for the Avalanche-JournalIn a recent opinion article, State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, writes that he “worked with [his] fellow legislators to increase funding…and allow for school choice." He makes an important but neglected point: school choice and traditional public schools are complements, not substitutes.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
fusionaier.org | Thomas Savidge |Peter Boettke |Alexander I. Salter
September 5, 2024By Thomas SavidgeOutside of some circles of monetary economists, August 15 often passes by unnoticed. It should be remembered because that date commemorates a massive overnight change in US monetary and fiscal policy. Fifty-three years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced to the world that “I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets.” This “temporary suspension” is still in place today.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | Alexander I. Salter
Original ArticlePosted By: Moritz55, 9/2/2024 4:45:46 PMCredit where it's due: It takes serious chutzpah to gaslight an entire nation. That's what progressives did last week at the Democratic National Convention when they tried to seize the mantle of freedom. A political movement that has, for more than a century, been explicitly devoted to taxing, regulating, mandating, and surveilling is making a big push to rebrand. Don't fall for it.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Christopher Freiman |Jon Murphy |Alexander I. Salter
President Biden recently announced a plan to impose a 5% cap on yearly rent increases by large-scale landlords. Rent control is a notoriously counterproductive policy. The reason is simple: rent control disincentivizes the construction of new housing units because it makes that construction less profitable. And a reduction in housing supply is precisely what we don’t want if our goal is widespread affordable housing.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Jon Murphy |Adam Smith |Alexander I. Salter |Scott Sumner
Nationalism is the support of one’s national interests, often to the detriment of other nations’ interests. Protectionism and nationalism often go hand-in-hand as protectionist tariffs are seen as necessary for promoting and protecting national interests. I am no nationalist (indeed, I regard it as an evil ideology on par with socialism and fascism); here I want to question the link between nationalism and protectionism.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Alexander I. Salter |Gordon Tullock |Scott Sumner |Kevin Corcoran
Economics education has major problems. Doctoral programs are churning out applied mathematicians and statisticians with little to no knowledge of price theory. At the undergraduate level, social control (“market failure!”) and activism (“inequality!”) have replaced careful reasoning about markets and politics. Very few programs instill in students an appreciation for the power and universality of the economic way of thinking.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Alexander I. Salter
High inflation creates major hardships for American households. Since January 2020, prices have grown at nearly 4% per year, which is double the rate the Federal Reserve targets. The prices we confront most frequently— food, energy, and shelter— have experienced some of the largest spikes. No wonder so many people think the economy is weak. It’s hard to make ends meet when your expenditures grow faster than your income and savings.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
frontporchrepublic.com | Alexander I. Salter
I knew this would be a difficult book for me to review, which is why I wanted to review it. Economists are frequently uncomfortable with concepts like statesmanship. Our disposition and training prepares us to study how incentives and information shape the decisions of large groups of people.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | Alexander I. Salter
Original ArticlePosted By: Dreadnought, 3/22/2024 12:55:46 PMAll across the nation, people voting with their feet are choosing Texas. The Census Bureau recently announced that eight of the 10 counties leading the country in population growth were in the Lone Star State. Harris County gained nearly 54,000 residents, the biggest increase in the nation. Other big winners were Collin, Montgomery, Denton, Fort Bend, Bexar, Tarrant, and Williamson counties.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Alexander I. Salter
All across the nation, people voting with their feet are choosing Texas. The Census Bureau recently announced that eight of the 10 counties leading the country in population growth were in the Lone Star State. Harris County gained nearly 54,000 residents, the biggest increase in the nation. Other big winners were Collin, Montgomery, Denton, Fort Bend, Bexar, Tarrant, and Williamson counties. All told, Texas’s population rose by 473,453 in 2023.
