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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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Why I Pledge Allegiance to the Constitution — Not the Flag
The pledge demands patriotic devotion. The skeptical Constitution builds limits on power. Only one protects liberty.
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Five Years After GameStop: What the Squeeze Actually Changed
Meme-stock investment infusions rescued the company without redeeming its model. Did that borrowed time produce market discipline — or simply delay error correction?
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Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs — Decline Is a Policy Choice
Silicon Valley isn’t dying — it’s decentralizing. Tech firms are expanding in lower-cost states and taking jobs with them.
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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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Data-Sharing Agreements for Fintech: the Market Solved What DC Couldn’t
After 15 years of regulatory tug-of-war, banks and fintech companies have reached private arrangements for sharing customer data.
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‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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Trump’s Maduro Move: Geopolitics Has Returned to Energy Markets
Recent US action in Venezuela is most plausibly a White House bid to control the flow of black market oil — not drugs.
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The W.E.B. Du Bois We Lost: Marginal Economist?
The famous sociologist was once a student of markets and wages. His later leftist radicalism was forged by institutional failure in the brutal Jim Crow South.
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Venezuelan Tragedy: Socialism, Entitlement, and Tyranny Are Connected
Once prosperous and cultured, Venezuela has become destitute, crime-ridden, and hopeless. Young socialists should take heed.
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How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Crypto-related prosecutions illustrate how allegations of crime are used to target privacy-enhancing tools and the people who build them.
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•
Why I Pledge Allegiance to the Constitution — Not the Flag
The pledge demands patriotic devotion. The skeptical Constitution builds limits on power. Only one protects liberty.
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•
Five Years After GameStop: What the Squeeze Actually Changed
Meme-stock investment infusions rescued the company without redeeming its model. Did that borrowed time produce market discipline — or simply delay error correction?
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Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs — Decline Is a Policy Choice
Silicon Valley isn’t dying — it’s decentralizing. Tech firms are expanding in lower-cost states and taking jobs with them.
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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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Data-Sharing Agreements for Fintech: the Market Solved What DC Couldn’t
After 15 years of regulatory tug-of-war, banks and fintech companies have reached private arrangements for sharing customer data.
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•
‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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•
Trump’s Maduro Move: Geopolitics Has Returned to Energy Markets
Recent US action in Venezuela is most plausibly a White House bid to control the flow of black market oil — not drugs.
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•
The W.E.B. Du Bois We Lost: Marginal Economist?
The famous sociologist was once a student of markets and wages. His later leftist radicalism was forged by institutional failure in the brutal Jim Crow South.
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•
Venezuelan Tragedy: Socialism, Entitlement, and Tyranny Are Connected
Once prosperous and cultured, Venezuela has become destitute, crime-ridden, and hopeless. Young socialists should take heed.