Economics

  • Liberty Requires God-given Rights Exercised in Free Markets
    “Many persons, having never viewed the subject (of liberty) in this light, charge us with excessive zeal, when they see us so warmly and earnestly…
  • Rule by Experts: Two Approaches to Economic Development
    “The conventional approach to economic development … is based on a technocratic illusion: the belief that poverty is a purely technical problem amendable to ……
  • Violate at Your Own Risk: The Immutability of Economic Laws
    by Dr. Arthur B. Laffer This is the first in a series of 10 papers by Dr. Art Laffer helping people to “think economically.” What…
  • Thinking Economically
    “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). As we learn at the very beginning of Scripture, God is the Creator…
  • Despite its Many Benefits, Innovation is Not Always Embraced
    When Sam Walton brought low-cost shopping to millions of American consumers by developing new, more efficient ways to deliver products to market, he had to battle entrenched political…
  • Calvinism and von Mises on Human Action
    A while back a few of us in my office were discussing Calvinism around the water cooler. Much of the talk related to the concept…
  • Jesus Warns of the Consequences of Corporate Welfare
    “What the Gospel accounts showed was a Jesus who was very concerned about economic exploitation, but whose economic denunciations were not broad, to-whom-it-may-concern condemnations of…
  • Get the Economics Right: An Interview with Bill Peacock
    I was interviewed last year by the good folks at Lara-Murphy Reporting. We talked about economics, electricity, and public policy. I thought I’d republish it…
  • Shaping the Culture Through Christian Economics
    I’ve spent the last 30 years of my life trying to free Texans from government oppression. Given that Texas’ biennial budget has grown from $46.4…
  • The Trinitarian Nature of Private Property
    Genesis 1:1 clearly establishes God as the owner of creation. Genesis 1:28 tells man to fill and subdue the earth (His property) and have dominion…
  • Private Property, the Great Commission, and the Trinity
    In a recent email discussion, a friend from church recently noted, “I don’t think anyone is going to argue that government has carte blanche to…
  • Economics 101: Image
    Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” – Genesis 1:26 God thinks and acts, and does so with purpose:…
  • Economics 101: Work
    Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion … Genesis 1:28 Man was created to work. The objective of…
  • How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter and Andrew Schiff
    Peter and Andrew Schiff wrote How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes based on the book by their father, Irwin, How an Economy Grows…
  • Christian Economics 101
    Economics often gets overlooked by Christians. From one perspective, this makes sense. Economics is not the gospel. Understanding biblical economics won’t save our souls. On…
  • Eliminating Renewable Energy Subsidies is Key to Boosting Prosperity
    Residential electricity prices have steadily increased for years, up more than 15 percent in the United States (not including Texas) since 2004. A newly released U.S. Department…
  • Quote of the Week – Mises on the Religion of Government Spending and Credit Expansion
    “No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through…
  • Let’s Break Up Tiger Woods
    In the aftermath of Tiger Woods’ dominant victory in the recent American Express Championship golf tournament, a number of Wood’s competitors announced they will be…
  • Inflation, Money Creation, and the Gold Standard
    “In a social order that is entirely founded on the use of money and in which all accounting is done in terms of money, the…
  • Economic Freedom and Quality of Life
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  • Today’s Digest
    The Right Kind of Bright in Your Eyes Doug Wilson gave the commencement speech to the graduating class of New Covenant Schools. Lots of good…
  • Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Reagan
    “I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: it was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator,…
  • TX v. CA – Texas Wins Again: Less Taxes and Spending Lead to Economic Growth
    The Texas Public Policy Foundation released some great research today by Dr. Art Laffer explaining why Texas is doing so much better than California—or just…
  • ABC Shows Obama Wrong on Tax Cuts!
  • National Review and the Contract
    Why in the world would National Review say that, “Republicans ought to promote new energy technologies in order to reduce the risks of global warming?”…
  • The Real Things Haven’t Changed
    I ran across a great quote this morning to help us remember some of the things that really matter for which we can be grateful…
  • Computer Prices and Creative Destruction
    I ran across a 1989 product comparison of several top-of-the-line computers. Including one from Dell, which featured an 80286 (20 MHz) processor and a 40 MB…
  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
    There are a lot of ways to measure how the economy is doing. But employment, or jobs, is probably the measure that means the most…
  • Living Like a King
    “Our free market system is usually termed capitalism and by that definition capitalism has hardly been around long enough to deserve all the evil for…
  • At Least One Nobel Prize Make Sense
    The recent awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences shows that at least one of the Nobel prizes is based on common sense. The…
  • Marxism Isn’t Enough
    William F. Buckley Jr.’s first book, God and Man at Yale, examined the anti-Christian and anti-capitalist mindset which, even in 1951, was pervasive among the…
  • Government is Good, but has its Limits
    We tend to have lots of discussions about public policy at my office—after all, that is what we do. As part of that dialogue, an…
  • Quotes of the Day
    “Probably, majority opinion agrees with our own national policy that the right of a man to engage in business for himself is not a basic…
  • Consumer Protection Usually Doesn’t Live Up to its Name
    It seems as if the folks in Washington don’t have enough to do with taking over the American financial, automobile, and health care industries. The…
  • Tax Cuts Work
    In his recent National Review Online article on the federal government’s deficit spending, Rich Lowry wrote, “The same way overzealous Republicans once argued that tax…
  • Welcome to Texas
    Dear Mr. Limbaugh: I noted your evident frustration recently with the high tax policies of New York that subject you to a punitive income tax…