What is the state of freedom of speech in America today? In this special-edition episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Steve Simpson, director of Legal Studies at ARI, takes on threats to free speech such as campaign finance laws, the culture of sensitivity on campus and government abuses of our right to speak.
Why is it that many hard-working factory workers, plumbers and waitresses never earn as much as some CEOs, best-selling novelists or A-list actors? Isn’t that unfair?
What made the Republicans wake up? How did we end up with Trump and Clinton? What’s missing from the presidential race? In this episode, Yaron Brook takes on the political landscape and considers what the ideal candidate would look like.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Salman v. United States, a case that illustrates the vague, arbitrary, and capricious nature of insider trading “laws.” Insider trading laws restrict people’s ability to buy and sell securities based on “material nonpublic information.” But what the government considers insider trading is often so nebulous that it amounts to ex post facto law: in many cases, it is impossible to know whether you’ve committed a crime until the government says you committed one.
In this episode of The Yaron Brook Show, Don Watkins interviews George Selgin, senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. Together they discuss the ethics and economics of fractional reserve banking, the cause of inflation and instability, pre-Fed “panics” and the Fed’s role in the financial crisis of 2008.
Tomorrow, September 24, Don Watkins is sitting in for Yaron Brook to discuss the virtues of free banking and monetary freedom with George Selgin, senior fellow and director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. Join Don Watkins tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. Eastern to learn about the ethics and economics of fractional reserve banking, the Fed as the cause of inflation and instability, the cause of pre-Fed financial panics, the origin of the Fed and the Fed’s role in the financial crisis of 2008.
In Equal Is Unfair, Yaron Brook and I argue that one of the problems with the concept of “economic inequality” is that it lumps together two fundamentally different things: inequality that reflects differences in productive achievement and inequality that reflects some people’s ability to gain unearned wealth. Package-deals like this lay the groundwork for injustice.
In this recent episode of The Bob Zadek Show, ARI fellow Don Watkins joins Zadek to discuss some of the many themes in his book Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
