Articles, tagged with "government intervention", page 1

There is lot of confusion about the origins of socialism and how it came to be so pervasive across much of the world. This article will examine socialism as an ideology from its founders through to its interchangeable links with communism. Contrary to...

John Cassidy’s article in this week’s New Yorker offers an unanswerable argument against what he calls “the myth of the free market” that flouts at common misconceptions among Americans by walking his reader through many little discussed but unavoidable h...

In October 1929 the stock market crashed, making obvious the problems that caused the Great Depression. 'This market crash of 1929 may be the worst economic crisis in American history. In September 2008 The worst liquidity crisis unfolded over a weeken...

Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work.The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in the labor force who are unemp...