Daily Economy
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Let’s Revive the Term Individualism
If you do not want to surrender the term “liberal” to soft collectivism, then speak of individualist liberalism rather than classical liberalism.
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Almost Everything People Say about Big Business Is Wrong
For all its imperfections, American business does a pretty good job — a much better job, Cowen argues, than most people think, and I, for one, agree.
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Who Pays the Tariffs (Video of Ed Stringham on Cheddar)
Is Trump engaged in a high-stakes game to bring about freer trade with China, or just looking for a way to justify the tariffs that he claims have revived American manufacturing?
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Global Capitalism Makes Your Hipster Minimalism Possible
Global capitalism has made possible our aesthetic choice for minimalism. The infinite complexity of the global division of labor and international supply chains makes our simplicity seem easy.
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Greed Is Good, but Not for the Greedy
The greed of the wealthy for showing off has led to a remarkably wealthy society, the most egalitarian culture the world has ever known.
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Core Capital-Goods Orders Holding Near Record High
New orders for durable goods decreased in May while core capital-goods orders rose; both appear to be plateauing amid rising uncertainty regarding the economic outlook.
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Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes
The Libra could be to money and finance what Henry Ford was to automobiles.
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How to Do Reparations the Right Way
What African-Americans, poor whites, and Native Americans want, and what they need, is what Adam Smith called “a tolerable administration of justice.”
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Will the Fed Save Us from Trade War? (Video of Ed Stringham on Yahoo Finance)
The Fed chairman insists that the central bank will make independent decisions but there is no way fully to insulate monetary policy from politics.
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A Currency Upheaval Is Coming
If the managers of the dollar instead seek isolation, protection, sanctions, blacklisting, and devaluation, powerful market forces will continue to seek alternatives.
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Let’s Revive the Term Individualism
If you do not want to surrender the term “liberal” to soft collectivism, then speak of individualist liberalism rather than classical liberalism.
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•
Almost Everything People Say about Big Business Is Wrong
For all its imperfections, American business does a pretty good job — a much better job, Cowen argues, than most people think, and I, for one, agree.
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•
Who Pays the Tariffs (Video of Ed Stringham on Cheddar)
Is Trump engaged in a high-stakes game to bring about freer trade with China, or just looking for a way to justify the tariffs that he claims have revived American manufacturing?
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•
Global Capitalism Makes Your Hipster Minimalism Possible
Global capitalism has made possible our aesthetic choice for minimalism. The infinite complexity of the global division of labor and international supply chains makes our simplicity seem easy.
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•
Greed Is Good, but Not for the Greedy
The greed of the wealthy for showing off has led to a remarkably wealthy society, the most egalitarian culture the world has ever known.
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•
Core Capital-Goods Orders Holding Near Record High
New orders for durable goods decreased in May while core capital-goods orders rose; both appear to be plateauing amid rising uncertainty regarding the economic outlook.
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•
Back the Libra with Gold, Says Steve Forbes
The Libra could be to money and finance what Henry Ford was to automobiles.
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•
How to Do Reparations the Right Way
What African-Americans, poor whites, and Native Americans want, and what they need, is what Adam Smith called “a tolerable administration of justice.”
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•
Will the Fed Save Us from Trade War? (Video of Ed Stringham on Yahoo Finance)
The Fed chairman insists that the central bank will make independent decisions but there is no way fully to insulate monetary policy from politics.
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•
A Currency Upheaval Is Coming
If the managers of the dollar instead seek isolation, protection, sanctions, blacklisting, and devaluation, powerful market forces will continue to seek alternatives.