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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Backdoor Censorship through Libel Law
We’ve fought too long and too hard against government encroachments to accept the slightest compromises to the firm principle of the freedom of speech. Trump’s threat is not about protecting truth against lies; it’s about government control over speech so that people who criticize the regime can be forced into silence.
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Government Cannot Be Trusted with Control of Money
Immediately following the inauguration in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt focussed on what his advisers told him was the real problem: the fall in the prices of everything. The theory, which is completely wrong, is that falling prices were causing the fall in productivity. They believed that by boosting the prices of stocks and other…
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What Has Government Done to Our Bathrooms?
The net effect of all of this has been to ruin our bathrooms. You might not realize it because the change has been slow, extending over 25 years. Only by encountering a bathroom with original fixtures from the 1940s can you perceive the full horror of what has happened. Our showers are lame, our toilets…
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In this Case, Nothing Beats Old Technology
The continued popularity of the cast-iron skillet illustrates a point. The purpose of technology is not to be new. It is not to complicate your life. It is not to do something never done before. It is not to confound, confuse, or disorient. The purpose of technology is to make your life better than it…
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Top Things I Learned from Fire and Fury
The Trump administration is truly the impossible presidency. Donald was never supposed to win. He didn’t believe he would win. When he did, he did something that absolutely no one could have predicted: he didn’t become anything we have associated with being president, ever. He refused to be anything but Trump. As a result, a…
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SEC Issues Warning and Cryptos Jump 10%
Had the state-backed systems of money and payments been working properly, and had been upgraded to work in the digital age, there would have been no need for crypto in the first place. This is the point that official organs will never admit.
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The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Trump-Bannon Split
What has gone completely missing here is a burning philosophical and ideological dispute between two wings of Trumpism. One seethes with right-wing Hegelian longings for an overthrow of the modern world and a resuscitation of tribalist nationalism (in short, fascism). The other is quasi-liberal at its best, seeking mostly to get government off our backs…
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Is the Cryptorouble a Viable Currency?
What would the cryptorouble bring to the table? It’s not hard to guess: some measure of control by the Russian government and central bank. We have no details yet on how the structure would work. But we can speculate. The best possible guess is that the cryptorouble would add a settlement layer to the official…
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Why Mainstream News No Longer Connects
Will we ever again trust the experts to run our lives, pick our leaders, tell us the news we need to know, plan our economy? It’s just not going to happen anytime soon.
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Mattresses Signify Our Astonishing Prosperity
Consider our good fortune. A third of our lives are spent on mattresses. A solid sleep is determinative of a good life. And get this: you didn’t build that mattress. Someone else is working right now for you, in the hope that you will buy. That’s called the market at work: endless progress, a beautiful…
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Backdoor Censorship through Libel Law
We’ve fought too long and too hard against government encroachments to accept the slightest compromises to the firm principle of the freedom of speech. Trump’s threat is not about protecting truth against lies; it’s about government control over speech so that people who criticize the regime can be forced into silence.
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•
Government Cannot Be Trusted with Control of Money
Immediately following the inauguration in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt focussed on what his advisers told him was the real problem: the fall in the prices of everything. The theory, which is completely wrong, is that falling prices were causing the fall in productivity. They believed that by boosting the prices of stocks and other…
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What Has Government Done to Our Bathrooms?
The net effect of all of this has been to ruin our bathrooms. You might not realize it because the change has been slow, extending over 25 years. Only by encountering a bathroom with original fixtures from the 1940s can you perceive the full horror of what has happened. Our showers are lame, our toilets…
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In this Case, Nothing Beats Old Technology
The continued popularity of the cast-iron skillet illustrates a point. The purpose of technology is not to be new. It is not to complicate your life. It is not to do something never done before. It is not to confound, confuse, or disorient. The purpose of technology is to make your life better than it…
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Top Things I Learned from Fire and Fury
The Trump administration is truly the impossible presidency. Donald was never supposed to win. He didn’t believe he would win. When he did, he did something that absolutely no one could have predicted: he didn’t become anything we have associated with being president, ever. He refused to be anything but Trump. As a result, a…
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SEC Issues Warning and Cryptos Jump 10%
Had the state-backed systems of money and payments been working properly, and had been upgraded to work in the digital age, there would have been no need for crypto in the first place. This is the point that official organs will never admit.
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•
The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Trump-Bannon Split
What has gone completely missing here is a burning philosophical and ideological dispute between two wings of Trumpism. One seethes with right-wing Hegelian longings for an overthrow of the modern world and a resuscitation of tribalist nationalism (in short, fascism). The other is quasi-liberal at its best, seeking mostly to get government off our backs…
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Is the Cryptorouble a Viable Currency?
What would the cryptorouble bring to the table? It’s not hard to guess: some measure of control by the Russian government and central bank. We have no details yet on how the structure would work. But we can speculate. The best possible guess is that the cryptorouble would add a settlement layer to the official…
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•
Why Mainstream News No Longer Connects
Will we ever again trust the experts to run our lives, pick our leaders, tell us the news we need to know, plan our economy? It’s just not going to happen anytime soon.
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•
Mattresses Signify Our Astonishing Prosperity
Consider our good fortune. A third of our lives are spent on mattresses. A solid sleep is determinative of a good life. And get this: you didn’t build that mattress. Someone else is working right now for you, in the hope that you will buy. That’s called the market at work: endless progress, a beautiful…