Daily Economy
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What’s Wrong with Copyright and How to Fix It
To my mind, Creative Commons is an imperfect solution to a major problem, while the best solution would simply leave the whole problem of production, ownership, and attribution to the market itself. But that is not the world we yet live in. Until then, it’s a beautiful thing that the market has found a stop-gap…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Undermines Free Enterprise and Human Dignity
Private property rights are the foundation of free enterprise. Without property rights trade will be suppressed and pushed underground. Growth is strangled and good people resort to dealing with corrupt officials and black market sellers just to get through their lives. We are all made worse off when authorities have excessive discretion, and without proof…
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International Survey Finds Common Factor in Unaffordable Housing
The analysis of housing in nine developed countries reveals that urban planning is the main threat to housing affordability and human prosperity.
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Modest Headline Masks a Strong Quarter for U.S. Economy
The initial estimate for fourth-quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) growth came in at 2.6 percent. However, Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a measure of private domestic demand, rose a robust 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter, well above the 2.6 percent real-GDP headline.
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Socialists Must Own Up to Venezuela
So long as there are those who believe in socialism, we will always run the risk that they will do to us what their ideological brethren did to Venezuela.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat Is Real
Trump seems to understand what is wrong with red tape and high costs within the borders but he seems blind to the terrible costs of doing the same to goods and services that cross the border into the United States.
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New- and Existing-Home Sales Are Showing Divergent Paths
Sales of new and existing single-family homes fell in December. However, a stronger postrecession recovery in existing-home sales has pushed the current months supply to an all-time low while the months supply for single-family homes has held relatively steady in recent months.
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Inflation Is Theft: On the Founding of AIER
Government monetary policy was not invented to help the everyday person but instead to benefit the government and its connected interests, “the swindlers.”
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Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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Localize It
What would happen if local governments had a lot more control over policy? Some localities could lower taxes and provide fewer services, while others could do the opposite. Local school boards could have much greater control over curricula and measuring outcomes. And many aspects of the culture wars could be settled at a level where…
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What’s Wrong with Copyright and How to Fix It
To my mind, Creative Commons is an imperfect solution to a major problem, while the best solution would simply leave the whole problem of production, ownership, and attribution to the market itself. But that is not the world we yet live in. Until then, it’s a beautiful thing that the market has found a stop-gap…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Undermines Free Enterprise and Human Dignity
Private property rights are the foundation of free enterprise. Without property rights trade will be suppressed and pushed underground. Growth is strangled and good people resort to dealing with corrupt officials and black market sellers just to get through their lives. We are all made worse off when authorities have excessive discretion, and without proof…
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•
International Survey Finds Common Factor in Unaffordable Housing
The analysis of housing in nine developed countries reveals that urban planning is the main threat to housing affordability and human prosperity.
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•
Modest Headline Masks a Strong Quarter for U.S. Economy
The initial estimate for fourth-quarter real gross domestic product (GDP) growth came in at 2.6 percent. However, Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a measure of private domestic demand, rose a robust 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter, well above the 2.6 percent real-GDP headline.
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•
Socialists Must Own Up to Venezuela
So long as there are those who believe in socialism, we will always run the risk that they will do to us what their ideological brethren did to Venezuela.
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•
Trump’s Tariff Threat Is Real
Trump seems to understand what is wrong with red tape and high costs within the borders but he seems blind to the terrible costs of doing the same to goods and services that cross the border into the United States.
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•
New- and Existing-Home Sales Are Showing Divergent Paths
Sales of new and existing single-family homes fell in December. However, a stronger postrecession recovery in existing-home sales has pushed the current months supply to an all-time low while the months supply for single-family homes has held relatively steady in recent months.
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•
Inflation Is Theft: On the Founding of AIER
Government monetary policy was not invented to help the everyday person but instead to benefit the government and its connected interests, “the swindlers.”
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•
Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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•
Localize It
What would happen if local governments had a lot more control over policy? Some localities could lower taxes and provide fewer services, while others could do the opposite. Local school boards could have much greater control over curricula and measuring outcomes. And many aspects of the culture wars could be settled at a level where…