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Green Growth: Data Show Freeing Economies Doesn’t Harm the Environment
Economic liberalization has often been assumed to have environmental tradeoffs. But decades of data show the incentives of prosperity and preservation are aligned.
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Nearly All Monetary Rules Say the Fed Should Raise Rates
Continued inflation, hawkish regional bank presidents, and 11 of 12 monetary policy rules suggest the Fed should raise rates. The price of the Fed’s “patience” could be paid economy wide.
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Sabotaging the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith Predicted Modern Policy Failures
Smith observed that significant economic inequalities arise not from voluntary exchange but from distortions that restrict competition, channel resources toward favored interests, and limit economic mobility.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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Independence or Accountability: The Fed Cannot Have Both
The Federal Reserve’s independence is often defended as essential to sound monetary policy, but it comes at the cost of meaningful democratic accountability.
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?
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Measuring Trump 2.0 Against Trump 1.0: Tariff Boasts Meet the Data
Trump credits tariffs for an economic “turnaround.” The data show stronger economic performance in his first term than in his second.
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May’s Inflation Is More Than an Energy Story
Core inflation remained relatively subdued, but headline shocks, strong demand, and a tight labor market complicate the outlook for monetary policy.
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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Green Growth: Data Show Freeing Economies Doesn’t Harm the Environment
Economic liberalization has often been assumed to have environmental tradeoffs. But decades of data show the incentives of prosperity and preservation are aligned.
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•
Nearly All Monetary Rules Say the Fed Should Raise Rates
Continued inflation, hawkish regional bank presidents, and 11 of 12 monetary policy rules suggest the Fed should raise rates. The price of the Fed’s “patience” could be paid economy wide.
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•
Sabotaging the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith Predicted Modern Policy Failures
Smith observed that significant economic inequalities arise not from voluntary exchange but from distortions that restrict competition, channel resources toward favored interests, and limit economic mobility.
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•
The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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•
Independence or Accountability: The Fed Cannot Have Both
The Federal Reserve’s independence is often defended as essential to sound monetary policy, but it comes at the cost of meaningful democratic accountability.
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•
World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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•
Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?
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•
Measuring Trump 2.0 Against Trump 1.0: Tariff Boasts Meet the Data
Trump credits tariffs for an economic “turnaround.” The data show stronger economic performance in his first term than in his second.
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•
May’s Inflation Is More Than an Energy Story
Core inflation remained relatively subdued, but headline shocks, strong demand, and a tight labor market complicate the outlook for monetary policy.
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•
Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.