Defending Freedom, Fighting Collectivism
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The (Big Labor) Empire Strikes Back in Michigan
“Labor unions prefer to obtain all their dues through the easy method of coercion. They hate RTW statutes because they give disaffected workers an escape hatch.” ~ George Leef
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The Myth of American Inequality and Stagnation
“The familiar trope of the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the middle classes treading water is disproved by devastatingly large amounts of empirical evidence.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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How Arrogance Threatens Freedom
“Those who demand special treatment from impersonal, anonymous, and uncontrollable processes lack humility. They want credit for their achievements, and they blame others when their goals fall short. With such arrogance, freedom is indeed impossible.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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A Sick (Pay) Policy that Redefines Work
“To the extent that these app-based companies are about matching unused resources, no matter how small, to those who want to employ those resources, this policy undermines the most beneficial aspect of the sharing economy.” ~ Anthony Gill
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Why Intellectuals Hate Al Czervik
“Power, by which I mean political power, is always zero-sum: if the intellectual elite has it, you and I don’t have it.” ~ Michael Munger
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Eliminating the Debt Ceiling: Is There Anything the 14th Amendment Can’t Do?
“The Biden administration threatens to invoke Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to sidestep the longstanding federal debt ceiling in a way that would increase the power of the executive branch. ” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers
“There are so many holes in the FTC and Sony’s opposition to the Microsoft-Activision merger that an analogy to Swiss cheese is in order.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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All Housing is Still Affordable Housing: “Seen and Unseen” Edition
“The unseen cause of gentrification is the knee-jerk NIMBYism of affluent leftist neighborhood associations. And that causes the elimination of almost all affordable housing in the city, quickly.” ~ Michael Munger
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America’s Long Depression
“The US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter
“Forbidding entrepreneurial ventures that have not been granted prior approval and design review by unelected officials is, practically speaking, state ownership of the means of production.” ~ Paul Schwennesen
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The (Big Labor) Empire Strikes Back in Michigan
“Labor unions prefer to obtain all their dues through the easy method of coercion. They hate RTW statutes because they give disaffected workers an escape hatch.” ~ George Leef
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The Myth of American Inequality and Stagnation
“The familiar trope of the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the middle classes treading water is disproved by devastatingly large amounts of empirical evidence.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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How Arrogance Threatens Freedom
“Those who demand special treatment from impersonal, anonymous, and uncontrollable processes lack humility. They want credit for their achievements, and they blame others when their goals fall short. With such arrogance, freedom is indeed impossible.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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A Sick (Pay) Policy that Redefines Work
“To the extent that these app-based companies are about matching unused resources, no matter how small, to those who want to employ those resources, this policy undermines the most beneficial aspect of the sharing economy.” ~ Anthony Gill
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Why Intellectuals Hate Al Czervik
“Power, by which I mean political power, is always zero-sum: if the intellectual elite has it, you and I don’t have it.” ~ Michael Munger
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Eliminating the Debt Ceiling: Is There Anything the 14th Amendment Can’t Do?
“The Biden administration threatens to invoke Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to sidestep the longstanding federal debt ceiling in a way that would increase the power of the executive branch. ” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The FTC should answer its Call of Duty to Gamers
“There are so many holes in the FTC and Sony’s opposition to the Microsoft-Activision merger that an analogy to Swiss cheese is in order.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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All Housing is Still Affordable Housing: “Seen and Unseen” Edition
“The unseen cause of gentrification is the knee-jerk NIMBYism of affluent leftist neighborhood associations. And that causes the elimination of almost all affordable housing in the city, quickly.” ~ Michael Munger
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America’s Long Depression
“The US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter
“Forbidding entrepreneurial ventures that have not been granted prior approval and design review by unelected officials is, practically speaking, state ownership of the means of production.” ~ Paul Schwennesen