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TweetDavid Henderson has an account of yet another instance of government thievery in the United States that would cause even the most shameless banana-republic autocrat to blush noticeably. Speaking...
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TweetOn this day, Milton Friedman’s 103rd birthday, it is good to read David Boaz’s birthday wishes to Milton Friedman from 2002. A slice: His advice was also sought around the world. Most famously,...
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TweetSarah Skwire reflects on “The Martian.” Matt Palumbo ponders the minimum wage. Speaking of the minimum wage, even Alan Krueger – a hero to those economists who seek justifications for ignoring the...
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TweetAdam Ozimek correctly explains that there are no losers from free trade. (It’s not a Pollyanna-ish claim; it’s accurate – as I, I vainly boast, pointed out, for example, in this EconTalk podcast...
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TweetThere are many reasons why it is a mistake to leap from the findings of behavioral economics to the conclusion that the state should be given more power to force, or even just to “nudge,”...
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TweetJeff Tucker reviews The Big Short. Doug Bandow calls on Americans to aid Syrian refugees – here and abroad. Even the gentle Timothy Taylor is made angry by Paul Krugman. George Will bids adieu to...
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TweetSandy Ikeda weighs in on the economics of the minimum wage. A slice: What does it say about the economic literacy of the [New York] governor’s office for him [Gov. Andrew Cuomo] to proclaim that...
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TweetMy Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy likes much of what she reads in the recent manifesto from Black Lives Matter, but she’s also disappointed at what that manifesto doesn’t say. Here...
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TweetGeorge Selgin explores alternatives for reforming last-resort lending. A slice: I hasten to add that I regard any need for last-resort lending as reflecting, not the inherent shortcomings of...
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TweetJustin Raimondo reminds us of the the history, and well as the ethical and fiscal importance, of the quest to end American military adventurism and what is so sweetly called American “global...
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TweetWriting in the New York Times, Deirdre McCloskey explains that the poor are enriched by market-driven economic growth and not by government-enforced ‘redistribution.’ A slice: A practical...
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TweetIlya Somin, a colleague over in GMU’s Antonin Scalia Law School, has penned a splendid essay on why the Senate should prevent Jeff Sessions from becoming the next Attorney General of the United...
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TweetTrump continues to stomp and snort as if he’s lord of a banana republic; in this case, he threatens to quiet the forces that are aligned against the banana-republic-like practice of civil asset...
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TweetMy Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold reacts with an appropriate yawn to some recent news about the U.S. trade deficit. A slice: U.S. producers exported more than $1 trillion in manufactured...
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TweetGeorge Will rightly criticizes Trump’s embrace of the banana-republic practice of civil asset forfeiture. (And see this related video.) My former student Alex Nowrasteh explains that low-skilled...
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TweetKevin Williamson rightly exposes the absurdity of the notion that everything is political. Richard Epstein – after pointing out some positive moves by Trump – wisely calls on Trump to resign the...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy continues her noble and economically justified fight against the GOP’s border-adjustment tax proposal. Ed Dolan explains that the data show...
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TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Dave Erchull is correct that the current use of civil asset forfeiture is abhorrent (Letters, March 11). The abusive misuse of this practice, however,...
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TweetSteve Chapman busts the myth that immigrants pose a threat to the American way of life. George Selgin warns against drawing mistaken lessons from Canada’s experience with private currency. Shikha...
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TweetArnold Kling nicely summarizes the cultural roots of America’s health-care problems. Here’s my favorite passage: Americans, and especially health care providers, do not want to think of health...
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