Regulation
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Adam Smith v. Wesley Jones
“It is long past time Americans saw through the multiple misrepresentations that have defended the Jones Act’s nothing-for-something restrictions for over a century, including twisting Adam Smith’s logic into a false endorsement of its enormously costly restrictions.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Should Government Control Our Lives? Featuring Jason Sorens (Video)
“On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sits down with Jason Sorens, Senior Research Faculty at AIER, co-author of Freedom in the 50 States, and founder of the Free State Project, to discuss how much government interferes with our daily lives.” ~ AIER
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An Astonishing Proposition
“Does the Biden administration believe that home buyers have the moral duty to sacrifice their own objectives in order to help others achieve their goals, and the government should enforce this moral duty?” ~ Peter J. Wallison
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What’s Called “Common Good Capitalism” Would Work Against the Common Good
“Because innovation is destined not only to reveal new ends that must be fitted into — and, hence, disrupt — the ‘common good capitalist’ plan, but also to create new and unanticipated means of pursuing ends, innovation must be suppressed if any ‘common good capitalist’ plan is to be seriously imposed.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Back to the Future: The Biden Administration’s Loan Level Price Adjustment and a Repeat of the Housing Crisis
“The LLPA would be immediately damaging to all Americans who have done the right thing, established solid credit and saved for an adequate down payment. It would be eventually damaging to those who are given unsustainable mortgages.” ~ H. Shelton Weeks & Nikolai G. Wenzel
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The Political Cleverness of Envy-Driven Housing Policies
“This is a recipe for housing stagnation. Strangling the supply of new market rate housing through these various programs means that existing market rents (whenever they are not regulated), must reach stratospheric levels.” ~ Raymond C. Niles
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Job Gentrification: Three Questions as a Way of Teaching About Minimum Wages
“If you force much higher wages — and a ‘living wage’ of $15/hour for an entry-level job in fast food is much higher — then you will ‘gentrify” jobs.’ ~ Michael C. Munger
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Some Factual and Economic Errors of “Common Good Capitalism”
“Arguments for ‘common good capitalism’ are chock-a-block both with factual errors and faulty economic reasoning of a sort not found in arguments for true capitalism.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Gas-Powered Banning Bandwagon: Why Politicians Should Leave Leaf Blowers Alone
“Given that there is already a severe shortage of labor in the landscape sector, the concern won’t be over what equipment is being used, but rather who will even opt to use it.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Operation Chokepoint 2.0: The Crypto Crackdown Explained (Video)
“In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand discusses the Obama-era Operation Chokepoint, and today’s ‘Operation Chokepoint 2.0’ with AIER Senior Research Faculty Thomas Hogan.” ~ AIER
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Adam Smith v. Wesley Jones
“It is long past time Americans saw through the multiple misrepresentations that have defended the Jones Act’s nothing-for-something restrictions for over a century, including twisting Adam Smith’s logic into a false endorsement of its enormously costly restrictions.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Should Government Control Our Lives? Featuring Jason Sorens (Video)
“On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sits down with Jason Sorens, Senior Research Faculty at AIER, co-author of Freedom in the 50 States, and founder of the Free State Project, to discuss how much government interferes with our daily lives.” ~ AIER
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An Astonishing Proposition
“Does the Biden administration believe that home buyers have the moral duty to sacrifice their own objectives in order to help others achieve their goals, and the government should enforce this moral duty?” ~ Peter J. Wallison
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What’s Called “Common Good Capitalism” Would Work Against the Common Good
“Because innovation is destined not only to reveal new ends that must be fitted into — and, hence, disrupt — the ‘common good capitalist’ plan, but also to create new and unanticipated means of pursuing ends, innovation must be suppressed if any ‘common good capitalist’ plan is to be seriously imposed.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Back to the Future: The Biden Administration’s Loan Level Price Adjustment and a Repeat of the Housing Crisis
“The LLPA would be immediately damaging to all Americans who have done the right thing, established solid credit and saved for an adequate down payment. It would be eventually damaging to those who are given unsustainable mortgages.” ~ H. Shelton Weeks & Nikolai G. Wenzel
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The Political Cleverness of Envy-Driven Housing Policies
“This is a recipe for housing stagnation. Strangling the supply of new market rate housing through these various programs means that existing market rents (whenever they are not regulated), must reach stratospheric levels.” ~ Raymond C. Niles
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Job Gentrification: Three Questions as a Way of Teaching About Minimum Wages
“If you force much higher wages — and a ‘living wage’ of $15/hour for an entry-level job in fast food is much higher — then you will ‘gentrify” jobs.’ ~ Michael C. Munger
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Some Factual and Economic Errors of “Common Good Capitalism”
“Arguments for ‘common good capitalism’ are chock-a-block both with factual errors and faulty economic reasoning of a sort not found in arguments for true capitalism.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Gas-Powered Banning Bandwagon: Why Politicians Should Leave Leaf Blowers Alone
“Given that there is already a severe shortage of labor in the landscape sector, the concern won’t be over what equipment is being used, but rather who will even opt to use it.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Operation Chokepoint 2.0: The Crypto Crackdown Explained (Video)
“In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand discusses the Obama-era Operation Chokepoint, and today’s ‘Operation Chokepoint 2.0’ with AIER Senior Research Faculty Thomas Hogan.” ~ AIER