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Don’t Pause the Gas Tax—Repeal It
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Don’t Pause the Gas Tax—Repeal It
28.7 Million Reports, 275 Investigations—the Bank Secrecy Act Doesn’t Work
Reviving Private Prosecution Could Transform Victims’ Rights
Can Deregulation of Branch Banking Improve Capital Allocation? Evidence from the Great Depression
Public Employees Have the Right to Talk Politics without Risking their Jobs
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Adam N. Michel Artaxerxes | Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump told CBS News recently that he wants to “take off the gas tax for...
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Nicholas Anthony Once again, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is breaking the law by failing to share the full suite of data needed...
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Matthew Cavedon In commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week at the end of April, Detroit’s chief prosecutor Kym Worthy promised that her office...
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In Graham Moore’s The Wealth of Shadows, John Maynard Keynes is a hero for his monetary manipulations. However, in the real world, the economics...
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Every nation-state boundary was drawn by force. Should we treat them as sacred the same way we treat a house or factory? Rothbard says...
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Jeffrey Miron The Great Depression led to dramatic increases in bank regulation. One study looks at an instance of bank deregulation during this period: state-level...
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A central banker has two lives: the first is spent studying neoclassical money supply mechanics; the second begins when they realize the real world...
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Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Harrison Prestwich Jeanne Hedgepeth worked for 20 years as a public school teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois....
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In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “rediscover”...
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Human Action sold thousands of copies, earned accolades from across the political spectrum, and made zero acknowledged impression on the economics profession. Or did...
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A Libertarian Party presidential nominee said he was open to a carbon tax. Mises would have had a different suggestion, and Timothy Terrell explains...
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Solveig Singleton Conventional wisdom holds that lax mortgage underwriting standards contributed to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Ostensibly, legislators intended the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s Ability...
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Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.
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Jeffrey A. Singer When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) placed psychedelics in Schedule I (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for...
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Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.