Economic freedom in the world has plunged in recent years, due mainly to the interventions and fiscal-monetary profligacy associated with COVID shutdowns, mandates, and subsidies. The global measure is given…
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Last week, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of power in Chile by Augusto Pinochet. A lot of ink was spilled over this takeover, due in part to…
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In March 1932, Collier’s Weekly ran an article titled “Tax Everyone But Me,” which included an instance starting with “Congress! Congress! Don’t tax me” instead of the sing-song: “Don’t tax…
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On Monday, 114 climate activists were arrested in New York City after having made quite the spectacle outside the Federal Reserve building. The stunt came just days after tens of…
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially taken Google to court. This trial, initiated under the Trump administration and now being brought to fruition via Biden’s bidding, is poised to…
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The academic history profession has a problem with intellectual integrity. Over the past decade, a cottage industry has emerged in elite university departments that explicitly aims to tear down free-market…
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On July 24, at the peak of a hot summer, a local news station in North Carolina reported on a new example of the sharing economy. It’s a swimming pool…
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Famously, at the start of his 1849 essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau observed, “That government is best which governs least.” Few policymakers or politicians during…
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America runs a trade deficit during some period – say, a month – whenever the dollar value of that period’s imports exceeds the dollar value of that period’s exports. Unfortunately,…
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I’ve been a truck driver for over 20 years. I suppose I always knew I would be, ever since that career day in the third grade when among all the…