It’s time to go back to the basics. Steve H. Hanke is a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University and the author, with Leland Yeager, of Capital, Interest, and Waiting.

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According to Keynesian economics, state intervention is necessary to moderate the booms and busts in economic activity, otherwise known as the business cycle. There are three principal tenets in the ...

And so when growth returned, it favored the investment class -- the top 20 percent, and especially the top 5 percent (and, though it's not on this chart, the top 1 percent more than anybody).

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When it comes to economics, there's no reason to expect leading lawmakers to be Boehner struggles with the economic basics June 21, 2013, 6:10 AM PDT ...