Daily Economy
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Durable-Goods Orders Rose in June
Durable-goods orders rose in June, and core capital-goods orders are holding at a high level. Continued economic expansion remains the most likely path, but policy uncertainty remains a risk.
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Your Right to Absinthe
It’s my habit, and maybe it should be yours, to celebrate every bit of freedom we gain back from the armies of authoritarians who wield the power of the state to improve our lives. It took one hundred years, but they finally got their mitts off this one market.
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Existing-Home Sales Fall Again in June
Despite falling mortgage rates, existing-home sales fell and home-price increases decelerated in May.
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Conservative Nationalism Is Not About Liberty
The American nation is and should be a country of free individuals bound together by a belief in a society of liberty, not a collective mythology of tribes, races, or “classes” to which the individual is subservient and for which he may be sacrificed and subjugated.
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Mandatory Busing Shows That Government Can’t Fix Complex Problems
Mandatory busing as advocated by many Democratic candidates is less a bad answer than the only answer to a terribly framed question emblematic of today’s miserable political landscape.
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Every Flaw in Markets Is Worse Under Socialism
As the granddaughter of a survivor of communism and socialism, I find it almost unfathomable that the political ideology my family left a continent for is creeping into my neighborhood.
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Are You Confused About National Conservatism?
It’s one of the great ironies of intellectual/political history how the Left and Right blend into a single oppositional force to the free society.
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Progressives Are Replacing Class Conflict With Intersectional War
A great divide is opening between older socialists like Sanders and ‘The Squad’
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Barley and Beer: The Sam Adams Story
A government could, undoubtedly, make beer. But the right beer with the right flavor profiles for a world of nearly infinite variety of tastes — not all of them consistent? For that, you need a market.
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Do Allegations of Intellectual-Property Theft Justify Protective Tariffs?
To trust the U.S. government to impose tariffs at home as it acts as an enforcer for private companies that choose to operate abroad is a recipe for cronyism costumed as ethical law enforcement.
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Durable-Goods Orders Rose in June
Durable-goods orders rose in June, and core capital-goods orders are holding at a high level. Continued economic expansion remains the most likely path, but policy uncertainty remains a risk.
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•
Your Right to Absinthe
It’s my habit, and maybe it should be yours, to celebrate every bit of freedom we gain back from the armies of authoritarians who wield the power of the state to improve our lives. It took one hundred years, but they finally got their mitts off this one market.
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Existing-Home Sales Fall Again in June
Despite falling mortgage rates, existing-home sales fell and home-price increases decelerated in May.
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•
Conservative Nationalism Is Not About Liberty
The American nation is and should be a country of free individuals bound together by a belief in a society of liberty, not a collective mythology of tribes, races, or “classes” to which the individual is subservient and for which he may be sacrificed and subjugated.
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•
Mandatory Busing Shows That Government Can’t Fix Complex Problems
Mandatory busing as advocated by many Democratic candidates is less a bad answer than the only answer to a terribly framed question emblematic of today’s miserable political landscape.
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•
Every Flaw in Markets Is Worse Under Socialism
As the granddaughter of a survivor of communism and socialism, I find it almost unfathomable that the political ideology my family left a continent for is creeping into my neighborhood.
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•
Are You Confused About National Conservatism?
It’s one of the great ironies of intellectual/political history how the Left and Right blend into a single oppositional force to the free society.
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•
Progressives Are Replacing Class Conflict With Intersectional War
A great divide is opening between older socialists like Sanders and ‘The Squad’
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•
Barley and Beer: The Sam Adams Story
A government could, undoubtedly, make beer. But the right beer with the right flavor profiles for a world of nearly infinite variety of tastes — not all of them consistent? For that, you need a market.
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•
Do Allegations of Intellectual-Property Theft Justify Protective Tariffs?
To trust the U.S. government to impose tariffs at home as it acts as an enforcer for private companies that choose to operate abroad is a recipe for cronyism costumed as ethical law enforcement.