Daily Economy
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Criminal Justice Reform Is Good for America
If Congress follows his lead and passes the piece of legislation in the following months, this will be the first time lawmakers take on the draconian sentencing practices that activists have long associated with the immoral war on drugs.
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Housing Outlook Remains Cautious
A drop in new housing permits and a plunge in homebuilder sentiment suggest the outlook for housing remains cautious.
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Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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Cause and Control of the Business Cycle (full text), Foreword by Edward Stringham
This remarkable book was published in 1932. E.C. Harwood’s ideas about inflation and the business cycle have relevance for our knowledge and for policy discussions today.
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A Woman’s Right to a Free Market
Women have come a long way. Isn’t it ironic, then, that women’s freedoms are today being constrained by misguided government policies enacted in the name of increasing that freedom? In other words, there are still battles yet to be won and disasters yet to prevent.
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The Ugly Truth About Amazon’s HQ2 Beauty Contest
Amazon’s highly coveted HQ2 is probably a good deal for company and cities alike, but for the rest of us, it’s just another frustrating example of what happens when big business and big government join hands.
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Why Your White Clothing Is No Longer White
All the essential tools for making clothing super white have been deprecated, mostly by government regulations.
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A Country Is Not Like a For-Profit Company
One of the most common faulty premises that infects discussions of economic policy is the premise that a country is like a private for-profit company, only larger. Nearly everything that the United States President says about trade makes sense if you understand him to believe that the United States economy is a gargantuan for-profit firm.
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Free Societies Don’t Need the Fed’s Managers
The public discourse concerning the state of the financial system that once took place in trade associations and committees of concerned citizens has disappeared, replaced by a cold and sterile managerialism practiced by an insular and self-perpetuating macroeconomic elite.
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Bohemian Rhapsody Shows That Artists Should Care About Audiences
The wonderful movie based on the life of Freddie Mercury and his band makes a great case that commerce can be and is the friend to art. It has always been so, but we are only now fully coming to terms with what this implies for the artistic endeavor generally.
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Criminal Justice Reform Is Good for America
If Congress follows his lead and passes the piece of legislation in the following months, this will be the first time lawmakers take on the draconian sentencing practices that activists have long associated with the immoral war on drugs.
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•
Housing Outlook Remains Cautious
A drop in new housing permits and a plunge in homebuilder sentiment suggest the outlook for housing remains cautious.
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•
Two Treatises On Competitive Currency and Banking by Lysander Spooner (full text), edited by Phil Magness
By making these lost Spooner treatises available again after more than a century in seclusion, it is my hope that they will both further our historical understanding of the time in which they were written and offer relevant insights to the evolution of economic ideas in the present day.
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•
Cause and Control of the Business Cycle (full text), Foreword by Edward Stringham
This remarkable book was published in 1932. E.C. Harwood’s ideas about inflation and the business cycle have relevance for our knowledge and for policy discussions today.
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•
A Woman’s Right to a Free Market
Women have come a long way. Isn’t it ironic, then, that women’s freedoms are today being constrained by misguided government policies enacted in the name of increasing that freedom? In other words, there are still battles yet to be won and disasters yet to prevent.
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•
The Ugly Truth About Amazon’s HQ2 Beauty Contest
Amazon’s highly coveted HQ2 is probably a good deal for company and cities alike, but for the rest of us, it’s just another frustrating example of what happens when big business and big government join hands.
-
•
Why Your White Clothing Is No Longer White
All the essential tools for making clothing super white have been deprecated, mostly by government regulations.
-
•
A Country Is Not Like a For-Profit Company
One of the most common faulty premises that infects discussions of economic policy is the premise that a country is like a private for-profit company, only larger. Nearly everything that the United States President says about trade makes sense if you understand him to believe that the United States economy is a gargantuan for-profit firm.
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•
Free Societies Don’t Need the Fed’s Managers
The public discourse concerning the state of the financial system that once took place in trade associations and committees of concerned citizens has disappeared, replaced by a cold and sterile managerialism practiced by an insular and self-perpetuating macroeconomic elite.
-
•
Bohemian Rhapsody Shows That Artists Should Care About Audiences
The wonderful movie based on the life of Freddie Mercury and his band makes a great case that commerce can be and is the friend to art. It has always been so, but we are only now fully coming to terms with what this implies for the artistic endeavor generally.