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Saifedean Ammous: “Property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells,...
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The problem with this new campaign in Iran is not merely that it will likely have bad near-term consequences, but that it represents the...
Yesterday, the White House said the war would last, at most, four weeks. Now it’s eight.
The current war is a timely reminder that the US ruling elites regard the US taxpayers and ordinary Americans as little more than inconvenient...
A detailed map of the road to regime change.
Saifedean Ammous: “Property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells,...
In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood...
Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost...
For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done...
The so-called K-shaped economy—where some experience positive growth and others negative growth—is perfectly explained by Austrian business cycle theory and the Cantillon effect.
On the economy, Trump gives himself a grade of “A+++++,” which is reminiscent of Hoover and other politicians who interpreted their economic failures as...
The GSEs have likely been told by the administration to buy up more mortgage debt to create the illusion that there is more demand...
Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed, pharma drugs are in short supply, and diagnostic tools are in short supply. The Cuban state is pretending nothing is...
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with...
Hassett was thought to be a done deal, but Trump and his allies are now suggesting that Kevin Warsh is the frontrunner.