Lew Rockwell on NOW with Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers interviews Lew Rockwell in 2003. Lew discusses Bush, Iraq, and the US economy.
Bill Moyers interviews Lew Rockwell in 2003. Lew discusses Bush, Iraq, and the US economy.
Since the original sugar tariff of 1789, US government policy has been to subsidize sugar, a policy that has led to serious consequences, including a health crisis of obesity.
Government intervened into home mortgages to subsidize home buyers and make home ownership more "affordable." As with most interventions, the results have backfired as home prices and mortgage rates skyrocket.
Paul Krugman has an easy answer for those that ask why people are pessimistic about the economy: the dastardly Republicans have fooled everyone. There are good reasons for the pessimism that we shouldn’t ignore, however.
Mark explains why the recent "all-time highs"—even "new highs"—are an ambiguous signal about the future.
Ezra Klein of the New York Times despairs of government’s impotence in building vast projects from energy grids to high-speed railways. He believes granting government absolute power is the answer.
One of the biggest and most pervasive myths in modern-day economics is the myth of the omnipotence of the Federal Reserve.
According to a Brown University professor, ExxonMobil threatens our democratic republic by purchasing another company. The totalitarian woke atmosphere in American higher education is the real threat.
Advocates of unbacked paper money claim that theirs is the “civilized” choice, as opposed to gold, or what Keynes called “that barbarous relic.” These inflationists, however, are the ones wrecking civilization as we have known it.
Data on employed persons, wages, and other measures point to trouble ahead in an economy already strained by growing bankruptcies, mounting debts, and disappearing savings.