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Ryan Bourne and Nathan Miller Republicans spent the better part of four years mocking the political left’s greedflation narrative—and rightly so. But lately they’re...
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It is important to note that states and what we know as taxes gradually emerged through war, conquest, plunder, and tribute. While the organization...
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Colleen Hroncich For more than 20 years, Tasha Ellis worked in a variety of roles within the education system, teaching K–8 in Atlanta public schools, adult...
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Ryan McMaken looks in detail at an important essay by historian Ralph Raico in which Raico critiques Ludwig von Mises’s views on democracy, fascism,...
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Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration has been scaling back support for clean energy, generating backlash from those concerned about carbon emissions. Which view is more convincing? Take as...
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While April’s reading was slightly improved from the preliminary reading, it remained the lowest in data back to 1978.
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The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — rose more than 3 basis points to...
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Perhaps Thiel will help build a surveillance state for for the Argentine regime similar to the illegal American spy state that Trump and Thiel...
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It’s unclear if the move will clear the way for Kevin Warsh’s nomination as new Fed chair.
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The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon (which includes many Christian communities) subjects the locals to routine looting and desecration of religious sites.
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Patrick G. Eddington Early this morning, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R‑SD) secured cloture on S.4344, Senator Tom Cotton’s (R‑AR) bill to extend Section...
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The market has one essential property: it remains connected to reality.
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The notion that AI can take over an economy is fantasy. A market economy is not made up of competing algorithms but rather sets...
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The boom-bust cycle is not a mystery. Understanding why requires grappling honestly with what the last fifty years produced.
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What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is...