Donald Boudreaux

America's lesson from Europe's experience

What lessons can America learn from Europe's experience and mistakes? Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame to identify why the failure of socialist policies of Europe for the last 60 years should be a wake-up call for the United States.

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Past manufacturing jobs have turned into more small business service jobs. Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame to explain how the outsourcing of former manufacturing jobs has become the best thing to happen to small business.
Service jobs growth globally makes manufacturing look like their declining. Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why manufacturing employment is lower because of technology and a growing global service sector.
The value of manufacturing is actually up. Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame to discuss some of the conventional thinking about manufacturing and why that picture does not take all things into consideration.
Should the Federal Reserve Board be abolished? Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame about alternatives to the Fed, and how to create a long-term plan to return the dollar to the gold standard.
Prosperity is created by allowing the marketplace to work. Don Boudreaux joins Jim Blasingame with suggestions on how to improve the economy, including stop printing money, reduce the size of government and convert to a flat tax.