Everyone is familiar with the direct costs of life. You feel it every time you take some money out of your wallet to pay for food, gas, or tuition. Are you familiar, however, with the indirect costs, and the choices that you make everyday? I am not referring to hidden taxes or fees (such as… [Read More]
Stimulate the Economy by Breaking Stuff?
The video originally comes from the Mises University, and I last saw it at The Daily Capitalist. You can read an article by Frédéric Bastiat on the broken window fallacy at the Mises Economics Blog. “Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government.”[1]