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Bob talks with Dr. Peter Klein about the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela and the social-media backlash against “international law,” using it as a...
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People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by...
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Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes...
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The Fed’s cost overruns in its building renovation project supposedly are not borne by taxpayers because, as the myth goes, the Fed is “self-financing.”...
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Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
Politics
The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other...
Politics
Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado Novo’s...
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Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the...
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While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the US economy into ruin. The latest Fed capers will...
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Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward...
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For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.
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A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.
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Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations,...