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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Incredibly, the Federal Government Is Actually Shrinking
The last time I was in D.C. (last month) something struck me as never before. The entire place is premised on the idea that what is awesome about life is entirely physical. Massive buildings. Huge stone and marble columns. Real estate. Monuments. Everything in this not-normal city is about gigantic, imposing, intimidating structures. It’s all…
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Why Do We Need So Many Monies?
A few years ago, Bernie Sanders uttered a passing comment that elicited howls of laughter among believers in competitive markets. “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants,” he said. Today, many people are saying the same thing about cryptocurrencies. Why so many? What’s the point? Why not one only or, actually,…
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Why the Dramatic Decline in Crime?
For centuries, for millennia, we’ve relied on government to stop invasions of person and property. We live more safely than ever before, thanks to market-based technological improvements, not reliance on government. It was once believed that only government could provide security; this debate dates back centuries. Now we learn otherwise. We get security from the…
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Krugman Said It: Bitcoin Is Evil
Nobody should celebrate a system of money and finance in which government controls the on-ramps and off-ramps based on political loyalties. That’s proven to be a very dangerous system. What we need is a censor-proof technology that can make prosperity possible for ever larger swaths of humanity. That’s not “evil”; it’s gloriously good.
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The Many Delusions of Socialism Revisited
Sombart’s leftism became rightism but it was made of the same substance always: a loathing of regular people in their free choices and a longing for history to follow his own imaginings of what should be rather than what is. Such is the core of socialist ideology: a delusion rooted in snobbery and, above all…
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The Year Ends in Tax Cuts and Deregulation
So far as I’m concerned, the genuine achievements under the Trump administration can be summed up in two words: tax cuts and deregulation.
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CryptoCurrency Markets Keep Know-It-Alls Humble
From the time Bitcoin was introduced, it faced ridicule, disgust, smears, and anger. Incredulity would naturally greet a technology that achieved something never before thought possible.
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Incredibly, the Federal Government Is Actually Shrinking
The last time I was in D.C. (last month) something struck me as never before. The entire place is premised on the idea that what is awesome about life is entirely physical. Massive buildings. Huge stone and marble columns. Real estate. Monuments. Everything in this not-normal city is about gigantic, imposing, intimidating structures. It’s all…
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Why Do We Need So Many Monies?
A few years ago, Bernie Sanders uttered a passing comment that elicited howls of laughter among believers in competitive markets. “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants,” he said. Today, many people are saying the same thing about cryptocurrencies. Why so many? What’s the point? Why not one only or, actually,…
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Why the Dramatic Decline in Crime?
For centuries, for millennia, we’ve relied on government to stop invasions of person and property. We live more safely than ever before, thanks to market-based technological improvements, not reliance on government. It was once believed that only government could provide security; this debate dates back centuries. Now we learn otherwise. We get security from the…
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Krugman Said It: Bitcoin Is Evil
Nobody should celebrate a system of money and finance in which government controls the on-ramps and off-ramps based on political loyalties. That’s proven to be a very dangerous system. What we need is a censor-proof technology that can make prosperity possible for ever larger swaths of humanity. That’s not “evil”; it’s gloriously good.
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The Many Delusions of Socialism Revisited
Sombart’s leftism became rightism but it was made of the same substance always: a loathing of regular people in their free choices and a longing for history to follow his own imaginings of what should be rather than what is. Such is the core of socialist ideology: a delusion rooted in snobbery and, above all…
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The Year Ends in Tax Cuts and Deregulation
So far as I’m concerned, the genuine achievements under the Trump administration can be summed up in two words: tax cuts and deregulation.
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CryptoCurrency Markets Keep Know-It-Alls Humble
From the time Bitcoin was introduced, it faced ridicule, disgust, smears, and anger. Incredulity would naturally greet a technology that achieved something never before thought possible.