Jeffrey Tucker
AIER Editorial Director – 2017-2021
Jeffrey A. Tucker served as Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research from 2017 to 2021.
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The Bad Theory Behind Overtime Rules
With its mechanical understanding of the process of wealth generation, the Department of Labor wildly exaggerates the role of labor hours in discerning, determining, and measuring economic value.
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Socialism Will Deprive You of What You Need to Survive
Among the most conspicuous of socialism’s failings is its capacity to generate vast shortages of things essential for life.
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The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Europe
What needs rethinking is not capitalism – much less the ideals of universal human rights and liberties – but the corruption of liberalism by a state that knows no limits to its powers.
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Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?
Facebook’s Libra is easily and probably rightly criticized by crypto purists as a halfway house that makes too many concessions to legacy systems and plays too nicely with the existing regulatory system. All true. But that’s not where the story ends.
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Elton John’s Soundtrack to Half a Century
It’s a rare artist who elicits the kind of widespread emotional homage that Elton John is receiving right now, hopefully, many years before his career is really over.
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The Trade War’s New Level of Bizarre
The Trump administration pulled back from the brink of disaster in trade relations with Mexico — but there is reason to doubt that this unusual display of good sense indicates a change in intellectual orientation, much less a lasting shift in policy. The man-made trade mess of the last year and a half is likely…
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In Money We Trust (Documentary by Steve Forbes)
The origin of money, the history of central banks, the operation and destruction of the gold standard, the rise of inflation and massive government debt, the disastrous bailouts of 2008 – it’s all covered in an outstanding hour-long documentary appearing on PBS stations called In Money We Trust.
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The Huawei Test
The U.S. has chosen to attack arguably the most creative and powerful and best-led capitalist company in China.
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Why Jordan Peterson Teared Up During His Budapest Lecture
This night he became a preacher of goodness, of civility, of moral strength in the face of struggle. The poetry of it all, and the promise that goodness and decency can prevail, was manifest in the crowds and the city right here, this night, in Budapest. It combined to inspire him to find the fullness…
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Why They Try to Turn Back the Tide of History
Knowing and seeing the pattern here makes it no less alarming but it does help reveal that these economic/political cycles are not arbitrary. And if history is our guide, we can also see that the efforts of the reactionaries against freedom will fail.
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The Bad Theory Behind Overtime Rules
With its mechanical understanding of the process of wealth generation, the Department of Labor wildly exaggerates the role of labor hours in discerning, determining, and measuring economic value.
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•
Socialism Will Deprive You of What You Need to Survive
Among the most conspicuous of socialism’s failings is its capacity to generate vast shortages of things essential for life.
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•
The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Europe
What needs rethinking is not capitalism – much less the ideals of universal human rights and liberties – but the corruption of liberalism by a state that knows no limits to its powers.
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•
Is Facebook’s Libra the Dollar’s Killer App?
Facebook’s Libra is easily and probably rightly criticized by crypto purists as a halfway house that makes too many concessions to legacy systems and plays too nicely with the existing regulatory system. All true. But that’s not where the story ends.
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•
Elton John’s Soundtrack to Half a Century
It’s a rare artist who elicits the kind of widespread emotional homage that Elton John is receiving right now, hopefully, many years before his career is really over.
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•
The Trade War’s New Level of Bizarre
The Trump administration pulled back from the brink of disaster in trade relations with Mexico — but there is reason to doubt that this unusual display of good sense indicates a change in intellectual orientation, much less a lasting shift in policy. The man-made trade mess of the last year and a half is likely…
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•
In Money We Trust (Documentary by Steve Forbes)
The origin of money, the history of central banks, the operation and destruction of the gold standard, the rise of inflation and massive government debt, the disastrous bailouts of 2008 – it’s all covered in an outstanding hour-long documentary appearing on PBS stations called In Money We Trust.
-
•
The Huawei Test
The U.S. has chosen to attack arguably the most creative and powerful and best-led capitalist company in China.
-
•
Why Jordan Peterson Teared Up During His Budapest Lecture
This night he became a preacher of goodness, of civility, of moral strength in the face of struggle. The poetry of it all, and the promise that goodness and decency can prevail, was manifest in the crowds and the city right here, this night, in Budapest. It combined to inspire him to find the fullness…
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•
Why They Try to Turn Back the Tide of History
Knowing and seeing the pattern here makes it no less alarming but it does help reveal that these economic/political cycles are not arbitrary. And if history is our guide, we can also see that the efforts of the reactionaries against freedom will fail.