politics
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Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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A Politically Feasible Plan to Fix Social Security
Social Security doesn’t work. Letting those who choose to save and invest for themselves could improve its sustainability.
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A ‘Clean Energy Race’ With China? Only If You Ignore The Coal.
China uses more coal than any country in the world and is increasing production fast. The “renewables race” is fear-driven fantasy.
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Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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How Bureaucracy Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
Half of California is ‘publicly owned’ and subject to multiple bureaucracies. They not only neglected fire controls, but fined people who took basic precautions.
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Is There Hope in Politics?
Political avarice, sanctioned robbery, coercive control: such is the nature of government, and always has been. We already know the cure.
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Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
Tariffs can’t bring back jobs and raise significant revenue at the same time. In fact, they’re unlikely to do either.
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Trump’s Minimum Wage Remarks Highlight the Flaws in Federal Mandates
Uniform wage laws destroy jobs, raise prices, and make automation more attractive….and that’s among the businesses that survive.
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How Government Feeds Spurious Support for Protectionism
Tariff increases might make good political sense, but they are bad economic policy.
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Learning Fiscal Discipline: Colorado’s Success, Shortcomings, and Regulatory Ruse
One of our 50 little labs of liberty has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights that refunds them the state surplus. But it hasn’t curtailed the growth of government.
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Scrapped Ventilators and Sovereign Wealth: Why Central Planners Shouldn’t Invest
Cutting waste at USAID while launching an utterly doomed Sovereign Wealth Fund is incongruous at best.
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•
A Politically Feasible Plan to Fix Social Security
Social Security doesn’t work. Letting those who choose to save and invest for themselves could improve its sustainability.
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•
A ‘Clean Energy Race’ With China? Only If You Ignore The Coal.
China uses more coal than any country in the world and is increasing production fast. The “renewables race” is fear-driven fantasy.
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•
Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation
One year into his presidency, Javier Milei has outperformed any reasonable expectations, except perhaps his own.
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•
How Bureaucracy Fueled the Los Angeles Wildfires
Half of California is ‘publicly owned’ and subject to multiple bureaucracies. They not only neglected fire controls, but fined people who took basic precautions.
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•
Is There Hope in Politics?
Political avarice, sanctioned robbery, coercive control: such is the nature of government, and always has been. We already know the cure.
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•
Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
Tariffs can’t bring back jobs and raise significant revenue at the same time. In fact, they’re unlikely to do either.
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•
Trump’s Minimum Wage Remarks Highlight the Flaws in Federal Mandates
Uniform wage laws destroy jobs, raise prices, and make automation more attractive….and that’s among the businesses that survive.
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•
How Government Feeds Spurious Support for Protectionism
Tariff increases might make good political sense, but they are bad economic policy.
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•
Learning Fiscal Discipline: Colorado’s Success, Shortcomings, and Regulatory Ruse
One of our 50 little labs of liberty has a Taxpayer Bill of Rights that refunds them the state surplus. But it hasn’t curtailed the growth of government.