Samuel Gregg on Venezuela’s agony, the Catholic Church, and a post-Maduro future

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The UK Parliament has taken two “meaningful votes” on Theresa May’s Brexit deal in less than six months. It has inflicted upon her the first and third largest defeats in modern history. Continue Reading...

Free marketers can learn from Keynes, says Samuel Gregg

John Maynard Keynes, 20th century British economist, is best known for his book, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936), but it was his pointed analysis of the Treaty of Versailles, “Economic Consequences of the Peace,” which first launched him into the public eye. Continue Reading...

Game of Theories: The Monetarists

Note: This is post #114 in a weekly video series on basic economics. A monetarist is an economist who holds the strong belief that the economy’s performance is determined almost entirely by changes in the money supply. Continue Reading...

Elites, markets and cronyism

It’s no great secret that France is facing social upheaval and has some longstanding deep-set economic problems. Nor is it revealing to say that France’s political class is despised across the spectrum as woefully out of touch. Continue Reading...