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Senate NDAA Would Give the Pentagon an Equity Portfolio
Sec. Wright: “We Will Never Come Remotely Close to Running Out of Hydrocarbons”
Protectionist Darling Whirlpool Circles the Drain
The Fed Is Working on a CBDC, Despite Executive Order
The JAWBONE Act Is on the Right Track to Stop Government Coercion
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Tad DeHaven (Getty Images) The Senate Armed Services Committee appears ready to do what the Republican-controlled Congress should have put a stop to: write...
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Michael Chapman (Getty Images) The good news about energy couldn’t be more clear: it is “massively abundant” and “always will be.” That’s according to...
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Scott Lincicome and Chad Smitson In my new Bloomberg column today, I discuss the travails of Whirlpool Corporation, a longtime advocate (and recipient) of...
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Nicholas Anthony President Donald Trump issued an executive order to stop the creation or development of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Yet rumors...
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David Inserra Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden recently introduced the JAWBONE Act to stop government pressure on and coercion of companies, a pattern...
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According to AOC and Bernie Sanders, it is impossible for someone to obtain a billion dollars of income by any means beyond theft. How...
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Andrew Gillen A new paper released today, Trends in Higher Education: State Funding and Tuition Revenue at Public Colleges from 1980 to 2025, documents...
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Alfredo Carrillo Obregon (Getty Images) On June 10, President Trump cast doubt on the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), stating that he...
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Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice.
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Nicholas Anthony The trouble with the Bank Secrecy Act is not limited to regulatory burdens, ineffective reporting, and expansionary surveillance. There’s also the problem...
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In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Influence and Significance of Human Action After 75 Years edited by Joseph T. Salerno....
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Historically, many sovereign states have granted separatist cultural and ideological groups political autonomy as a means of avoiding full secession. The US legal system...
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Historically, many sovereign states have granted separatist cultural and ideological groups political autonomy as a means of avoiding full secession. The US legal system...
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This week, Bob walks through three thought experiments to show how expectations of future supply changes ripple into present prices and production decisions in...