Economics
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Can Immigration Address America’s Fiscal Nightmare? It Depends
High-skilled workers tend to strengthen government budgets, while low-skilled immigration can add fiscal pressure. The composition of immigration matters as much as the number.
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The End of Pax Americana
America’s retreat from free trade is weakening the economic foundation that sustained Pax Americana for generations.
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What a Children’s Book Taught Me About Core Economic Principles
Despite having no formal economics training, Richard Scarry captures Say’s Law through Busytown’s everyday interactions.
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AI Regulation: A Tale of Two Austrian Economists
If policymakers treat Big Tech’s bureaucratic stagnation as a justification for more bureaucracy, the outcome will be a self-fulfilling Schumpeterian slide into managerial socialism.
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Rents, AI, and Commodity Prices: What Drove State-Level Growth in 2024?
Localized price data from the BEA show specific patterns of growth and inflation reshaped the economic map of the United States in 2024.
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‘Saving the Family’ Should Start with Sound Money
American’s birth dearth isn’t just cultural — it’s monetary. The best pro-natal policy is to stop making daily life so expensive.
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The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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When Production Isn’t Production and Prices Aren’t Prices
When we use economic terms loosely, we smuggle in assumptions that the theory itself does not support.
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The Price of Greenland — and the Cost of Attacking Sovereignty
If borders become negotiable under tariff pressure, risks rise, investment falls, and fragile global norms further fracture.
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Are Free Traders Materialistic — or Are Protectionists?
The claim that protectionism serves “higher ends” rests on a confusion about both economics and the non-economic goals people actually value.
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Can Immigration Address America’s Fiscal Nightmare? It Depends
High-skilled workers tend to strengthen government budgets, while low-skilled immigration can add fiscal pressure. The composition of immigration matters as much as the number.
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•
The End of Pax Americana
America’s retreat from free trade is weakening the economic foundation that sustained Pax Americana for generations.
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•
What a Children’s Book Taught Me About Core Economic Principles
Despite having no formal economics training, Richard Scarry captures Say’s Law through Busytown’s everyday interactions.
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•
AI Regulation: A Tale of Two Austrian Economists
If policymakers treat Big Tech’s bureaucratic stagnation as a justification for more bureaucracy, the outcome will be a self-fulfilling Schumpeterian slide into managerial socialism.
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•
Rents, AI, and Commodity Prices: What Drove State-Level Growth in 2024?
Localized price data from the BEA show specific patterns of growth and inflation reshaped the economic map of the United States in 2024.
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•
‘Saving the Family’ Should Start with Sound Money
American’s birth dearth isn’t just cultural — it’s monetary. The best pro-natal policy is to stop making daily life so expensive.
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•
The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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•
When Production Isn’t Production and Prices Aren’t Prices
When we use economic terms loosely, we smuggle in assumptions that the theory itself does not support.
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•
The Price of Greenland — and the Cost of Attacking Sovereignty
If borders become negotiable under tariff pressure, risks rise, investment falls, and fragile global norms further fracture.
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•
Are Free Traders Materialistic — or Are Protectionists?
The claim that protectionism serves “higher ends” rests on a confusion about both economics and the non-economic goals people actually value.