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by | Apr 30, 2023

We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years By Stephen D. King (Yale University Press, 230 pages, $28) The current inflation rate in the USA is 5 percent, significantly down from its June 2022…

by | Feb 19, 2023

Envy rules, even in Westfield. That’s one conclusion to draw from Netflix’s announcement of a second season for its hit series The Watcher, a mystery built around house lust. Over the course of the (already) too many episodes, citizens of…

by | Feb 1, 2023

Last week, economist, professor, and adventurer Yuri Maltsev passed away. Yuri’s passing is a gigantic loss for the economics profession, for the conservative and libertarian movements, and for me personally. He was a courageous advocate for truth, justice, and liberty…

by | Oct 9, 2022

Over the past two years, the battle of ideas in public policy has widened in scope, intensified in fury, and escalated in consequence in our daily lives. The fight rages at all levels of government and all corners of society….

by | Feb 9, 2022

Pushing back on recent pro-worker populism on the Right, the American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Strain writes that “workers need a growth-and-participation agenda.” The addition of the word “participation” to traditional pro-growth ideas is especially important today. Millions of pages of…

by | Dec 26, 2019

Looking back at 2019 is incredibly disorienting. The country is horribly divided. In fact, the president of the United States was just impeached along partisan lines. The government is running trillion dollar (and growing) annual budget deficits, even though the…

by | Nov 2, 2019

In spite of brazen attempts by Democrats to fabricate, exaggerate, distort, sabotage, and cheat, Donald Trump has worked economic wonders. The U.S. unemployment rate has reached its lowest level in half a century. That’s rare historically and rare relative to…

by and | Aug 16, 2019

With the recent inversion of the yield curve sparking recession fears in the United States and the stock market swinging wildly in response to the ongoing trade negotiations with China, some are wondering if the longest economic expansion in American…

by | Dec 31, 2018

St. Louis, Missouri Are you a government-failure denier — someone who believes that the government that governs best is one that overflows with good intentions, regardless of the cost or outcome? Are you someone who thinks a lot about “market…

by | Dec 26, 2018

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. I was afraid his obviously improvised campaign, imprecise explanations concerning how he planned to achieve his policy goals, and unsettling antics presaged a disastrous one-term presidency if he somehow managed to win. Unlike Bill…

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