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The Unintended Consequences of Vacancy Taxes
Taxing vacant properties may be politically appealing, but they have little effect on rents while creating new economic distortions.
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Fixing Patent Eligibility Is an Easy Win for Innovation
Restrictive patent eligibility has pushed investment in key technologies overseas, weakening one of America’s historic competitive advantages. Congress can still reverse course.
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‘Guns Versus Butter’: Tracing the Dark Origins of a Classic Economic Model
The phrase’s apparent origins in Nazi Germany — and its grim use during the 1930s and 1940s — highlight a basic truth: prioritizing guns over butter ultimately imposes the cost of lower living standards on ordinary citizens.
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Rewarding Good Governance: How Foot-Voters Benefit Society
Governance improves when people and businesses are free to leave high-tax, low-value jurisdictions. Competition can improve public policy just as it improves products and services.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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The Fed Needs Independence, Not Immunity
Monetary policy deserves insulation from politics, but regulation and emergency lending powers may not. Can Congress and the Courts differentiate?
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Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.
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Unfinished Republic: What I’m Teaching My Daughter About America’s Founding
Americans fall short of our founding ideal that all are created equal. But reformers have fought ever since to fulfill that promise.
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A Forgotten Founder Who Warned Against Cronyism
John Taylor argued that government-created privilege would enrich favored interests while weakening republican self-government.
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The American Revolution Redefined Freedom Itself
Since 1776, at least 120 peoples have declared independence, echoing Jefferson’s universal claim about natural rights, self-government, and political legitimacy.
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The Unintended Consequences of Vacancy Taxes
Taxing vacant properties may be politically appealing, but they have little effect on rents while creating new economic distortions.
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•
Fixing Patent Eligibility Is an Easy Win for Innovation
Restrictive patent eligibility has pushed investment in key technologies overseas, weakening one of America’s historic competitive advantages. Congress can still reverse course.
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•
‘Guns Versus Butter’: Tracing the Dark Origins of a Classic Economic Model
The phrase’s apparent origins in Nazi Germany — and its grim use during the 1930s and 1940s — highlight a basic truth: prioritizing guns over butter ultimately imposes the cost of lower living standards on ordinary citizens.
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Rewarding Good Governance: How Foot-Voters Benefit Society
Governance improves when people and businesses are free to leave high-tax, low-value jurisdictions. Competition can improve public policy just as it improves products and services.
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•
States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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•
The Fed Needs Independence, Not Immunity
Monetary policy deserves insulation from politics, but regulation and emergency lending powers may not. Can Congress and the Courts differentiate?
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•
Rolling Stone and the Making of a Counterculture Capitalist Success Story
In ‘The Rise of Hip Capitalism,’ author Charles L. Ponce de Leon traces how Rolling Stone fused countercultural rebellion with entrepreneurial ambition, turning cultural dissent into a media empire.
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•
Unfinished Republic: What I’m Teaching My Daughter About America’s Founding
Americans fall short of our founding ideal that all are created equal. But reformers have fought ever since to fulfill that promise.
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•
A Forgotten Founder Who Warned Against Cronyism
John Taylor argued that government-created privilege would enrich favored interests while weakening republican self-government.
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•
The American Revolution Redefined Freedom Itself
Since 1776, at least 120 peoples have declared independence, echoing Jefferson’s universal claim about natural rights, self-government, and political legitimacy.