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Politics
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.
Politics
Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what...
Politics
We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of...
Politics
Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what...
Politics
The media is trying to frame last week’s indictment of James Comey as a “norm-shattering” use of executive power for personal gain. In truth,...
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Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
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Professor Georgy Ganev joins Bob to explain that, contrary to the claims of David Graeber and the MMTers, the barter origin of money has...
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Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a...
Politics
Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade. Partisans are rewarded for tribal loyalty rather...
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By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming the...
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During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda.
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In the West, the “tax states” we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that were...