Daily Economy
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Why Buildings are Collapsing in Cuba
To save lives by ensuring that large-scale, sophisticated repairs for dilapidated buildings are swiftly and efficiently undertaken, the Cuban government must free the market for capital goods.
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They Are Coming for Your Paper Towels
They want us to use rags, sponges, and mops again for all our small spills in the kitchen? Forget it. We don’t want cross contamination. We don’t want stinky sponges around our food. We don’t want to drag out buckets and rags just to remove that spilled milk on the counter. We don’t need a…
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Beyond GDP to a New Road to Serfdom
Professor Stiglitz is confident that humanity can be made better; just collect the data, organize and catalog it, and reduce all to a series of statistical indices, and heaven will be a little closer on earth once the right policies are implemented.
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A Border Wall Will Worsen the Drug Problem
The increased violence near the US borders is the result of the current drug prohibition and will likely inflame with further prohibitory measures.
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Ideological Blindness on the Right and Left
The rest of us are caught between two brands of ideological fanaticism that begin in a bad idea, deploy government power to realize the goal, and end as a grave threat to liberty and property.
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Is There a Link Between Tech Addiction Among Teens and Public Policy?
Video games, it seems, have become teens’ drug of choice, consuming hours of their lives. The result is what one would expect: bad grades, concerned parents, and broken family relationships. In the end, many are having to go to rehab to regain control of their lives.
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The Myth of Spiraling Inequality
Conventional wisdom says that inequality in the United States is spiraling out of control. But what do the data actually say?
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The Pejorative Origins of the Term “Neoliberalism”
Neoliberalism is one of academia’s trendiest boogiemen. Do historians have the wrong origin story?
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Free Enterprise Pushed Teen Pregnancy Rate to Record Low
More effective than any government program would have been, the introduction of the internet, increased access to birth control, and the increased awareness that came from a popular TV show obviously helped generations of teens to make better decisions about their own lives.
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How Self Interest Builds Prosperity and Community
Markets guided by prices daily lead each of us to share happily and abundantly with each other despite the reality that we are, to each other, mostly strangers. Familiarity, affection, and brotherly love are virtuous feelings but these feelings do not contribute as reliably to our material well being as does market exchange.
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Why Buildings are Collapsing in Cuba
To save lives by ensuring that large-scale, sophisticated repairs for dilapidated buildings are swiftly and efficiently undertaken, the Cuban government must free the market for capital goods.
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•
They Are Coming for Your Paper Towels
They want us to use rags, sponges, and mops again for all our small spills in the kitchen? Forget it. We don’t want cross contamination. We don’t want stinky sponges around our food. We don’t want to drag out buckets and rags just to remove that spilled milk on the counter. We don’t need a…
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•
Beyond GDP to a New Road to Serfdom
Professor Stiglitz is confident that humanity can be made better; just collect the data, organize and catalog it, and reduce all to a series of statistical indices, and heaven will be a little closer on earth once the right policies are implemented.
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•
A Border Wall Will Worsen the Drug Problem
The increased violence near the US borders is the result of the current drug prohibition and will likely inflame with further prohibitory measures.
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•
Ideological Blindness on the Right and Left
The rest of us are caught between two brands of ideological fanaticism that begin in a bad idea, deploy government power to realize the goal, and end as a grave threat to liberty and property.
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•
Is There a Link Between Tech Addiction Among Teens and Public Policy?
Video games, it seems, have become teens’ drug of choice, consuming hours of their lives. The result is what one would expect: bad grades, concerned parents, and broken family relationships. In the end, many are having to go to rehab to regain control of their lives.
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•
The Myth of Spiraling Inequality
Conventional wisdom says that inequality in the United States is spiraling out of control. But what do the data actually say?
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•
The Pejorative Origins of the Term “Neoliberalism”
Neoliberalism is one of academia’s trendiest boogiemen. Do historians have the wrong origin story?
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•
Free Enterprise Pushed Teen Pregnancy Rate to Record Low
More effective than any government program would have been, the introduction of the internet, increased access to birth control, and the increased awareness that came from a popular TV show obviously helped generations of teens to make better decisions about their own lives.
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•
How Self Interest Builds Prosperity and Community
Markets guided by prices daily lead each of us to share happily and abundantly with each other despite the reality that we are, to each other, mostly strangers. Familiarity, affection, and brotherly love are virtuous feelings but these feelings do not contribute as reliably to our material well being as does market exchange.