Daily Economy
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Capping Ubers Won’t Fix New York’s Problems
Hard caps can seem like a tantalizingly easy way to “protect” both incumbent drivers and New Yorkers facing grinding traffic, but a close look at those caps questions just how effective they can be at their stated goals. And the issues facing both groups illuminate underlying problems with no easy regulatory fix.
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The Case for Permissionless Everything
I understand why people often fear freedom or the consequences of breaking the rules, and thus acquiesce to government restrictions on their freedoms. But I fear that we have gone too far in this timid and cowardly compliance. So long as everyone respects everyone else’s rights, we should have permissionless consumption (foreign and domestic), permissionless…
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A Brief on Alt-Right Ideology
Every activist political movement eventually becomes a caricature of itself. This is certainly true of the so-called alt-right that blasted onto the cultural stage with its “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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Let’s Think Through This Trade Issue, Carefully
Should the political order reflect a vision of society as a free association of individuals engaging in free exchange for mutual and general benefit and creating a complex society thereby? Or should it come from one that sees membership of a collective entity as primary and allows trade among insiders but puts barriers in the…
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Paul Krugman’s Incorrigible Monetary Keynesianism
If Paul Krugman wants to experience what a modernized P2P exchange of sound money feels like, my offer stands. I’m willing to help.
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Student Debt: The Bermuda Triangle of Blame
The $1.5 trillion student-debt crisis is ongoing but can certainly be mitigated if colleges, government, and students work together.
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The Keynesian Trap: Lessons From the Japanese Slump
Despite Japan’s perfect Keynesian-textbook policy making, the economy has not revived. As a legacy of the policies, the Japanese government debt has grown to a dimension rarely reached outside of times of war.
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The Counterrevolution
Fascism often is discussed as though it were the opposite of communism, but such is not precisely the case. Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were different in many respects; but the principles of their economic ideologies were the principles of socialism; their initial appeal was to the underprivileged; and the final result, a new despotism, was…
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Why Dollarization Doesn’t Work in Zimbabwe
Replacing a country’s failed currency with a reserve currency such as the dollar – so called “dollarization” – is not as easy as it sounds.
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How Travelling in Europe has Completely Changed
State-run or state-privileged companies have for many decades dominated European markets. But the moment the opportunity arose for others to enter the market, those very companies faltered, while others are currently prevailing. The benefits are immense.
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Capping Ubers Won’t Fix New York’s Problems
Hard caps can seem like a tantalizingly easy way to “protect” both incumbent drivers and New Yorkers facing grinding traffic, but a close look at those caps questions just how effective they can be at their stated goals. And the issues facing both groups illuminate underlying problems with no easy regulatory fix.
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•
The Case for Permissionless Everything
I understand why people often fear freedom or the consequences of breaking the rules, and thus acquiesce to government restrictions on their freedoms. But I fear that we have gone too far in this timid and cowardly compliance. So long as everyone respects everyone else’s rights, we should have permissionless consumption (foreign and domestic), permissionless…
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•
A Brief on Alt-Right Ideology
Every activist political movement eventually becomes a caricature of itself. This is certainly true of the so-called alt-right that blasted onto the cultural stage with its “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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•
Let’s Think Through This Trade Issue, Carefully
Should the political order reflect a vision of society as a free association of individuals engaging in free exchange for mutual and general benefit and creating a complex society thereby? Or should it come from one that sees membership of a collective entity as primary and allows trade among insiders but puts barriers in the…
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•
Paul Krugman’s Incorrigible Monetary Keynesianism
If Paul Krugman wants to experience what a modernized P2P exchange of sound money feels like, my offer stands. I’m willing to help.
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•
Student Debt: The Bermuda Triangle of Blame
The $1.5 trillion student-debt crisis is ongoing but can certainly be mitigated if colleges, government, and students work together.
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•
The Keynesian Trap: Lessons From the Japanese Slump
Despite Japan’s perfect Keynesian-textbook policy making, the economy has not revived. As a legacy of the policies, the Japanese government debt has grown to a dimension rarely reached outside of times of war.
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•
The Counterrevolution
Fascism often is discussed as though it were the opposite of communism, but such is not precisely the case. Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were different in many respects; but the principles of their economic ideologies were the principles of socialism; their initial appeal was to the underprivileged; and the final result, a new despotism, was…
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•
Why Dollarization Doesn’t Work in Zimbabwe
Replacing a country’s failed currency with a reserve currency such as the dollar – so called “dollarization” – is not as easy as it sounds.
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•
How Travelling in Europe has Completely Changed
State-run or state-privileged companies have for many decades dominated European markets. But the moment the opportunity arose for others to enter the market, those very companies faltered, while others are currently prevailing. The benefits are immense.