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You Can Pay Your Friends on PayPal and Venmo Again—And Not Worry About the IRS
Celebrate the end of the $600 reporting threshold, an IRS attempt to nickel-and-dime freelancers while reading every American’s Venmo memos.
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Health on the Shelf: How Markets Made Life-Saving Inhalers Accessible
Individuals create lifesaving technologies. But it’s commercial markets that ensure innovation is within reach when you need relief.
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Trump’s 39% Tariff on Gold: Revenue Grab or Prelude to Revaluation?
The new levy rattled global markets, but that may be just the beginning. History teaches us to be wary when the government targets gold.
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The Day New York Defaulted: Inside Gotham’s Fiscal Fall
Decades of reckless budgeting drove away the city’s tax base. In 1975, bond markets effectively ruled the city bankrupt.
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What Japan’s Struggling Rice Market Teaches Us About US Tariffs
Tariffs may sound patriotic, but they almost always weaken the very industries they’re supposed to protect.
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Superman, Sneaking Snacks into Movies, and the Mystery of Social Order
Movie theaters are little stages of human action and social norms. What do smuggled snacks teach us about the value of experience?
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What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
Regular family dinners — with conversation instead of screens — continue to correlate with positive outcomes for young people.
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Spontaneous Order Created Stablecoins — How Did Regulating Them Become a Strategic Consensus?
Installing a programmable, always-on dollar in decentralized networks, stablecoins extend US monetary power into domains where central banks have never operated.
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War on Words: The ‘Free Speech Recession’ Is Not Over
Free speech is in danger in the United States. Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen’s book couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
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Fed Governor’s Labor Market Warning Validated by BLS Revision
The Fed waited for labor market softening to cut rates. Do BLS data reveal monetary policy is already too tight?
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You Can Pay Your Friends on PayPal and Venmo Again—And Not Worry About the IRS
Celebrate the end of the $600 reporting threshold, an IRS attempt to nickel-and-dime freelancers while reading every American’s Venmo memos.
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•
Health on the Shelf: How Markets Made Life-Saving Inhalers Accessible
Individuals create lifesaving technologies. But it’s commercial markets that ensure innovation is within reach when you need relief.
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•
Trump’s 39% Tariff on Gold: Revenue Grab or Prelude to Revaluation?
The new levy rattled global markets, but that may be just the beginning. History teaches us to be wary when the government targets gold.
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•
The Day New York Defaulted: Inside Gotham’s Fiscal Fall
Decades of reckless budgeting drove away the city’s tax base. In 1975, bond markets effectively ruled the city bankrupt.
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•
What Japan’s Struggling Rice Market Teaches Us About US Tariffs
Tariffs may sound patriotic, but they almost always weaken the very industries they’re supposed to protect.
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•
Superman, Sneaking Snacks into Movies, and the Mystery of Social Order
Movie theaters are little stages of human action and social norms. What do smuggled snacks teach us about the value of experience?
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•
What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
Regular family dinners — with conversation instead of screens — continue to correlate with positive outcomes for young people.
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•
Spontaneous Order Created Stablecoins — How Did Regulating Them Become a Strategic Consensus?
Installing a programmable, always-on dollar in decentralized networks, stablecoins extend US monetary power into domains where central banks have never operated.
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•
War on Words: The ‘Free Speech Recession’ Is Not Over
Free speech is in danger in the United States. Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen’s book couldn’t have come at a more opportune time.
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•
Fed Governor’s Labor Market Warning Validated by BLS Revision
The Fed waited for labor market softening to cut rates. Do BLS data reveal monetary policy is already too tight?