Opinion
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A Libertarian Case for Regulating Sports Betting
Prohibition won’t stop gambling’s social harms. But regulations aimed at transparency could protect individual rights to informed contract, while limiting predatory platforms.
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The Airwaves Are Going on Sale Again. But Does the FCC Have the Right Goal?
Maximizing consumer welfare and enabling the fullest utilization of the airwaves requires that auctions be conducted to enhance efficiency in wireless markets rather than be narrowly focused on generating revenue.
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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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Too Connected to Fail: Washington’s New Tech Oligarchy
From Intel to Dell, federal policy has helped create a tightly interdependent system where government power and private firms reinforce one another through subsidies, contracts, and political access.
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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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The Boomers vs. Millennials Debate Misses the Bigger Economic Point
The real challenge isn’t deciding which generation suffered more — it’s restoring the conditions that allow every generation to prosper.
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What the Meta–Google Verdict Gets Wrong
Is a product defective if it gives you too much of what you want? And are social-scroll algorithms regulated products — or protected speech?
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Why Undoing the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule Matters for Americans
The rollback of the EPA’s Endangerment Finding will lower costs, curb regulatory overreach, and restore accountability to Congress.
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A Libertarian Case for Regulating Sports Betting
Prohibition won’t stop gambling’s social harms. But regulations aimed at transparency could protect individual rights to informed contract, while limiting predatory platforms.
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•
The Airwaves Are Going on Sale Again. But Does the FCC Have the Right Goal?
Maximizing consumer welfare and enabling the fullest utilization of the airwaves requires that auctions be conducted to enhance efficiency in wireless markets rather than be narrowly focused on generating revenue.
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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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•
Too Connected to Fail: Washington’s New Tech Oligarchy
From Intel to Dell, federal policy has helped create a tightly interdependent system where government power and private firms reinforce one another through subsidies, contracts, and political access.
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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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•
The Boomers vs. Millennials Debate Misses the Bigger Economic Point
The real challenge isn’t deciding which generation suffered more — it’s restoring the conditions that allow every generation to prosper.
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•
What the Meta–Google Verdict Gets Wrong
Is a product defective if it gives you too much of what you want? And are social-scroll algorithms regulated products — or protected speech?
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Why Undoing the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule Matters for Americans
The rollback of the EPA’s Endangerment Finding will lower costs, curb regulatory overreach, and restore accountability to Congress.