Trends
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Chicago’s Hotel Tax Gamble: Raising Prices to Attract Tourists
By hiking its hotel tax to 19 percent, Chicago is funding marketing meant to draw visitors — but higher costs are likely to deter the very tourists it hopes to attract.
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Earth Hour Misses Civilization’s True Triumph: Human Innovation
Turning off the lights is easy. Creating them—and the progress they bring—was humanity’s true achievement.
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Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages
Cloud seeding is a cost-effective, free-market alternative to billion-dollar water infrastructure projects. It can provide flexible, locally driven solutions to western water shortages.
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Capitalism’s Coalition Is Cracking — And That Should Worry Us
Polls show skepticism is rising, yet the moral and economic case for free markets has never been stronger.
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AI Regulation: A Tale of Two Austrian Economists
If policymakers treat Big Tech’s bureaucratic stagnation as a justification for more bureaucracy, the outcome will be a self-fulfilling Schumpeterian slide into managerial socialism.
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Why a Teacher Union Exodus Could Be Imminent
The Teacher Freedom Alliance just announced that they’re offering free liability insurance to teachers who leave the union.
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DOGE Gets Serious in Its War on the Administrative State
If DOGE and agency heads succeed in their mission, it will be nothing less than the greatest deregulatory achievement seen in the modern world.
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The States’ War on ESG
ESG advocates’ bait-and-switch deception has forced legislators to scrutinize how their state assets are managed. Maximizing returns, not political causes, must guide public investments.
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Why a Ground Game Is Needed to Defeat DEI
Companies admit DEI wasn’t good business, nor for those it purported to help. But DEI grifters and grievance peddlers won’t give up easily.
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Walgreens, Mass Closures, and the Power of Incentives
Persistent problems and recurring losses tend to incentivize ingenuity and new thinking in a market economy.
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Chicago’s Hotel Tax Gamble: Raising Prices to Attract Tourists
By hiking its hotel tax to 19 percent, Chicago is funding marketing meant to draw visitors — but higher costs are likely to deter the very tourists it hopes to attract.
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•
Earth Hour Misses Civilization’s True Triumph: Human Innovation
Turning off the lights is easy. Creating them—and the progress they bring—was humanity’s true achievement.
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•
Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages
Cloud seeding is a cost-effective, free-market alternative to billion-dollar water infrastructure projects. It can provide flexible, locally driven solutions to western water shortages.
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•
Capitalism’s Coalition Is Cracking — And That Should Worry Us
Polls show skepticism is rising, yet the moral and economic case for free markets has never been stronger.
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•
AI Regulation: A Tale of Two Austrian Economists
If policymakers treat Big Tech’s bureaucratic stagnation as a justification for more bureaucracy, the outcome will be a self-fulfilling Schumpeterian slide into managerial socialism.
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•
Why a Teacher Union Exodus Could Be Imminent
The Teacher Freedom Alliance just announced that they’re offering free liability insurance to teachers who leave the union.
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•
DOGE Gets Serious in Its War on the Administrative State
If DOGE and agency heads succeed in their mission, it will be nothing less than the greatest deregulatory achievement seen in the modern world.
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•
The States’ War on ESG
ESG advocates’ bait-and-switch deception has forced legislators to scrutinize how their state assets are managed. Maximizing returns, not political causes, must guide public investments.
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•
Why a Ground Game Is Needed to Defeat DEI
Companies admit DEI wasn’t good business, nor for those it purported to help. But DEI grifters and grievance peddlers won’t give up easily.
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•
Walgreens, Mass Closures, and the Power of Incentives
Persistent problems and recurring losses tend to incentivize ingenuity and new thinking in a market economy.