No better, more reliable forecaster of the US business cycle has existed in recent decades than the initial shape of the US Treasury yield curve, and since last October it’s…
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My good friend Russ Roberts wrote a terrific book a few years back, which he called How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. It’s a terrific introduction to Smith if…
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May 2023 was another month indicating mostly neutral economic trends in the American Institute for Economic Research’s Business Conditions Monthly. AIER’s Leading Indicator rose to 67 in May 2023, its…
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Of all the declared Republican presidential candidates, none has taken a tougher stance on the Federal Reserve than Governor Ron DeSantis. He’s criticized monetary policymakers for permitting rampant inflation. He’s…
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In the past decade, there have been multiple books – by Johan Norberg, Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling among many others – arguing that there are important reasons to be optimistic…
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On Independence Day 2023, Federal judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in the case of Missouri v. Biden, ordering a slew of…
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On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Thomas Hogan, to discuss what he coined the SEC’s illegal war against crypto. Tom is senior research faculty at…
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I write a lot about the so-called “trade deficit.” I do so not because I’m besotted with discussions and debates featuring this accounting artifact, but because no concept in all…
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The Second Continental Congress named the Committee of the Five, a group who drafted what would become the United States Declaration of Independence. This committee operated from June 11, 1776,…
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This Independence Day, we recall how strangely beautiful the American Founding was. It remains the first of its kind, often imitated, never fully replicated. The American Founding, announced to the…