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The State Is a Greasy-Hand Tourist 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- October 16, 2019
No matter your race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, or favorite football team, there has never been a better time to be alive, broadly speaking, than right now — and it’s getting better all the time. Sadly, a lot of people don’t know it, know it and don’t care, or know it and hate it.
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Trump Wins the Trade War. Everyone Else Loses 0
- Front Page, Political Opinion
- October 14, 2019
The 70-year global progress toward freer trade is permanently reversed so long as the Republicans hold the White House. That’s the message of the non-deal trade deal just announced between the U.S. and China. It’s a deal that reduces no existing tariffs and offers only symbolic changes in other terms that were already on the
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What Is Lobbying (And Do We Really Need Lobbyists)?0
- Front Page, Political Opinion
- October 2, 2019
In 2007 Gallup released its annual honesty and ethical standards list ranking the most trustworthy professions in the United States. At the top of the list were nurses, whose honesty was ranked “very high” or “high” by 83 percent of respondents, followed by teachers (74 percent), druggists (71 percent), military officers (65 percent), and physicians
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12 Truth Bombs from Milton Friedman 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- October 1, 2019
American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading critics of the prevailing economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, whose mixed economy model became the standard for many developed nations during and after the World War II-era. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family
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Art Sucks: Punk Rock and the Invisible Hand 0
- Economics of Liberty, Free Style, Front Page, Political Opinion, Pop Culture
- September 18, 2019
Punk rock was the anthem of an era. The theme-song of a decade. The voice of a generation. Everything about ripped jeans, combat boots, sneering teenagers, and the screaming lyrics of the Sex Pistols to the rhythmic mumbles of the Ramones defined disdain for control. The headquarters of Punk was a bar in the Hell’s
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Face It, We Are All Spoiled 0
- Free Style, Front Page
- September 16, 2019
By Jeffrey A. Tucker We think of kids today as uniquely spoiled. Their phones, their cars, their lazy lives, their sense of entitlement, their endless whining for more. It’s all true. But maybe that’s been continuously true for 1,000 years, from the time of the invention of the mechanical clocks first written about in the
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