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Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
Dissenters from the official narrative were blacklisted and booted. The tools censors used aren’t going away.
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The Dark Side of FDR
David Beito’s new book argues that Roosevelt’s record reveals a president driven more by power than principle.
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Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.
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Business Conditions Monthly November 2025
Shelter costs led price increases, but goods price acceleration leveled off. We’ve reached a new, distinctly elevated “normal.”
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Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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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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My Bank Froze ‘My’ Account — Is Permissioned Access Still Money?
One unverifiable dispute locked me out. If permission to pay with my own money can be blocked, what does owning it mean anymore?
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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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Censorship and the Ratchet Effect: Threats to Free Speech Outlast Supposed Crises
Dissenters from the official narrative were blacklisted and booted. The tools censors used aren’t going away.
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•
The Dark Side of FDR
David Beito’s new book argues that Roosevelt’s record reveals a president driven more by power than principle.
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•
Capping Card Interest Rates Won’t Make Credit Cheaper
APR caps may sound consumer-friendly, but price caps just serve to cut off vulnerable households from legitimate lenders.
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•
Business Conditions Monthly November 2025
Shelter costs led price increases, but goods price acceleration leveled off. We’ve reached a new, distinctly elevated “normal.”
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•
Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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•
The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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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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•
My Bank Froze ‘My’ Account — Is Permissioned Access Still Money?
One unverifiable dispute locked me out. If permission to pay with my own money can be blocked, what does owning it mean anymore?
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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.