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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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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...