Daily Economy
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Realignment, Not Upheaval, Defines Our Political Moment
Faced with this situation, individualist liberals have to walk a straight but narrow path. They should continue to uphold and articulate the individualist perspective on politics and society, clearly and simply, while also pursuing the intellectual agenda of exploring those insights and applying them to the contemporary world.
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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey
The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.
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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
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Protectionism Is Like a Gas Leak in Your Home (Video)
I’m personally grateful to the research done by the scholars at AIER, without which I would not be prepared to speak about the Fed’s actions in the repo market or the new OECD report downgrading global growth prospects. It’s a wonderful team.
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Do You Donate Out of Fear or Love?
Donors to AIER know that it is not enough to fund the lesser of two evils; we also need to donate to the good to make the world a freer and better place.
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The Vaping “Crisis” is an Opportunity to Rethink Government Bans
All too often, alternatives to government bans are difficult to name offhand not because they don’t exist but because we haven’t asked. Perhaps this is our opportunity to do better.
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s … the Speculator!
You have heard, no doubt, that we are going to run out of oil. Is there any hope? Can we escape the calamity? Whatever might we hapless citizens do? This sounds like a job for … the Speculator!
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Forced Repatriation of Money Achieves Nothing
Economists frequently extol the virtues of currency devaluation as having some kind of positive economic impact, but they’ve plainly never talked to people in Argentina.
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We Don’t Have a Real Market for Health Care in the U.S.
Few of us have true insurance, but rather just access to a giant paperwork mill.
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Even Swedish Socialism was Violent
Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.
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Realignment, Not Upheaval, Defines Our Political Moment
Faced with this situation, individualist liberals have to walk a straight but narrow path. They should continue to uphold and articulate the individualist perspective on politics and society, clearly and simply, while also pursuing the intellectual agenda of exploring those insights and applying them to the contemporary world.
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Count Me Among the Fans of Downton Abbey
The real story of anarchy – life without the state – is not one of chaos but the opposite: our failing as a civilization is that we probably have an overly competent propensity to create social systems of control from which we end up having to rebel from time to time.
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Maybe It’s Good that Politics Has Become Ridiculous
When was the last time vast numbers of people commonly celebrated a domestic achievement of government? You have to go back a half century to the first moon landing.
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Protectionism Is Like a Gas Leak in Your Home (Video)
I’m personally grateful to the research done by the scholars at AIER, without which I would not be prepared to speak about the Fed’s actions in the repo market or the new OECD report downgrading global growth prospects. It’s a wonderful team.
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Do You Donate Out of Fear or Love?
Donors to AIER know that it is not enough to fund the lesser of two evils; we also need to donate to the good to make the world a freer and better place.
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The Vaping “Crisis” is an Opportunity to Rethink Government Bans
All too often, alternatives to government bans are difficult to name offhand not because they don’t exist but because we haven’t asked. Perhaps this is our opportunity to do better.
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s … the Speculator!
You have heard, no doubt, that we are going to run out of oil. Is there any hope? Can we escape the calamity? Whatever might we hapless citizens do? This sounds like a job for … the Speculator!
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Forced Repatriation of Money Achieves Nothing
Economists frequently extol the virtues of currency devaluation as having some kind of positive economic impact, but they’ve plainly never talked to people in Argentina.
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•
We Don’t Have a Real Market for Health Care in the U.S.
Few of us have true insurance, but rather just access to a giant paperwork mill.
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Even Swedish Socialism was Violent
Coercive policies extended beyond eugenic sterilization, forced and voluntary.