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Colleen Hroncich Kids don’t generally drop out of schools that are working for them. But the school a child is assigned to isn’t always...
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Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments...
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Norbert J. Michel Many bankers appear happy with the new proposals for “Basel III Endgame,” and with good reason. When this all started back...
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Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments...
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The Australian philosopher David Stove, while not exactly a Rothbardian, still preferred the free market. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon introduces...
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Dan Greenberg Earlier this month, The Atlantic published “The FBI Director Is MIA,” an article that accused Kash Patel of excessive drinking, various management failures,...
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Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, and Chad Smitson Data published today by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis show that domestic investment in artificial...
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Peter Van Doren The United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently announced its exit from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The rationale was to expand...
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Jeffrey A. Singer On November 24, 2024, before taking office to start his second term, then-President-elect Trump nominated Dr. Janette Neshiewat, a Fox News...
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The Trump administration’s downsizing USAID has brought the usual claims: that without US aid, millions of poor people around the world will die of...
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The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our...
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The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called “American experiment”—was swept away long ago.
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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...