Author: CreativeDeduction

Across the political spectrum, from Libertarians and Randian Objectivists to socialists, there is agreement on the existence and sanctity of basic individual [...]

As the European Union turns 60, the future of the block is in doubt. On its southern borders, Greece is a problem that just won’t go away. To the North, [...]

Austrian economic theory tells us that asset bubbles arise when artificial credit expansion distorts capital allocation and leads to production that is out of [...]

In the autumn of 2015 the FCA, the UK’s financial regulator, were hard at work on a new set of regulations. In their sights were payday lenders, who had been [...]

‘Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime’. This supposedly Chinese proverb expresses [...]

Progressive lawmakers in the US have not had much to celebrate lately, but they gained some traction late February, when President Trump gave his support to a [...]

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and the richest man on the planet, made headlines recently with a call for a tax on robots, to equalise some perceived advantage [...]

We live in an age defined by identity. No longer is a man judged by his actions, but by what demographic he belongs to. The idea that man (or woman, [...]

The most common objection to the welfare state is that ‘without welfare the poor would die in the streets’. It pops up without fail in every conversation [...]

Around the world, politicians and central bankers have been worried about the cost of the stuff we buy not being high enough. Official UK inflation has hovered [...]