WATCH: Taxes Have Consequences with Arthur B. Laffer, Jeanne Sinquefield and Brian Domitrovic
On September 20, 2022, Show-Me Institute and Show-Me Opportunity hosted a discussion with Arthur B. Laffer, Jeanne Sinquefield and Brian...
Is There a 1984 in Our Future? A Super Bowl Reflection
What was the greatest Super Bowl commercial of all time? With Super Sunday just around corner, we will cite the...
The Utopian Apocalypse: Silicon Valley Freaks Out over Automation
With Labor Day just around the corner, now is a good time to discuss (and, more than that, to take...
Show-Me Now! Bring The Great Depression To Your Classroom
Are you a high school history teacher? If so you may want to invite us to your school for a...
Why Was The Depression So Great?
Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Michael Rathbone explains the causes of the Great Depression and the effects of government policies during...
Why Was the Great Depression So Great?
Last month, Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Michael Rathbone visited Westminster Christian Academy in Saint Louis County to deliver a guest...
Why Was the Great Depression So Great?
On May 5, 2011, Show-Me Institute Research Assistant John Payne spoke about the causes of the Great Depression to a...
Herbert Hoover the Interventionist
One of the projects I have been working on lately is a unit about the Great Depression for junior high...
Lessons of the Great Depression
Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education, explains the causes of the Great Depression of 1929 –...
I Love Arbitrash!
Arbitrage, in economics, is when someone trades commodities in such a way as to realize a profit from the price...
Free Trade Does Not Cost Too Much
Mike Guzy, who currently writes for the St. Louis Beacon and formerly wrote for the Post-Dispatch, is a very talented...
No False Modesty on Government Websites
Financialstability.gov no longer says “Coming Soon.” Now it reads like any other campaign website: America is back from the brink...
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he...
Location, Location, Location
Daniel Hamermesh at Freakonomics writes about the silliness of “local” production and employment restrictions. Like the “locavore” consumption enthusiasts, the...
Governments Should Make Sense, Not Jobs
There is a lot of talk at present about job creation. During the Great Depression, the federal government engaged in...
Eric Mink Writes About Risk (the Experience, Not the Board Game)
I enjoy closely reading and analyzing Eric Mink’s columns in the Post-Dispatch, but because he primarily writes about national or...
Some Senators Should Stop the Stupid Stimulus
Ahh, alliteration, the simple pleasure of a poetic mind. This post really doesn’t have anything to do with the Senate...
Trouble … With a Capital T
And that rhymes with P, and that stands for Poole. Bill Poole, that is, president of the St. Louis Federal...
Milton and Money Stock Control
Read this article at theFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. View a brief video commemoratingMilton Friedman, hosted by thepresident...
