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Feb 192024

If Javier Milei Trusts the Markets, He Doesn’t Need to ‘Dollarize’

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Feb 162024

Only An Economist Could Believe In the Impossibility That Is Monetarism

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Feb 152024

Bruce Springsteen’s Mother ‘Scrimped’ To Get Him His First Guitar

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Bank Capital Requirements Are So Much More Expensive Than the Capital

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Americans Are Too Busy Creating To Bother With Learning

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Feb 132024

Yo U.S. Protectionists, How Goes the ‘Ban’ On Chip Sales In China?

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Feb 122024

Book Review: Peter Biskind’s “Pandora’s Box”

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Arizona Pols Play Politics With Its Pro Business Reputation

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Feb 102024

Retirement Savings As a Crucial Instigator of World Peace

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Don’t Worry, There’s No Looming Tax Hike On the ‘Middle Class’

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Feb 92024

Relax, the Fed Can’t Do What David Stockman Thinks It Can

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Feb 82024

The Federal Reserve’s Sizeable Irrelevance Is The ‘Inflation’ Lesson

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Feb 72024

Over Thirty Years After Its Disgrace, Let’s Give Milli Vanilli Its Due

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Feb 52024

Thanks to Big Tech, Fathers Get To See Their Kids Each Morning

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Feb 42024

California Already Has a Wealth Tax, That’s Why It Has So Much Debt

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Feb 32024

There Are No ‘Price Controls,’ There’s Just Scarcity

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Feb 22024

The Crisis Is Not the Debt Reckoning, It’s the Extraction That Leads To It

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Feb 12024

Xi Jinping Can’t Prop Up Chinese Shares Much As Fed Can’t U.S. Shares

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Jan 312024

Lamar Jackson: Antidote to Conservative Vapors About College Education

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Would Lina Khan and the EU Have Blocked Amazon’s Acquistion?

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Jan 302024

Only An Economist Could Buy the China ‘Deflation’ Narrative

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Jan 282024

Apple Vision Pro Is Set to Shame FTC Storytellers

By Jonathan Decker

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More Than They’ll Admit, Left AND Right Buy Into MMT Fiction

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Since When Is Progress Bad for White or Blue Collar Workers?

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Jan 262024

As Savings Are Matched With Investment, Pessimists Should Rejoice

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“Inflation” Is a Full Employment Act For Economists

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Jan 242024

Global Warming and Left Wing Professors Worry You? You Must Be Rich

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Bitcoin Is Neither Money Nor Is It An Inflation Hedge

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What Would the Global Warming Science Have Said About Dostoevsky’s Russia?

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Jan 222024

Standing Athwart Federal Attempts To Equalize Healthcare Costs

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Jan 212024

A Case Against Bret Stephens’s Case For Trump, From a Trump Voter

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In An Age of Soaring Inequality, Life Will Get Better and Better

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Jan 182024

Arthur Burns Sadly Isn’t Around To Defend Himself Against Arthur Burns

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College Kids Have Independent Minds, Including Harvard Kids

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Book Review: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Classic ‘Crime and Punishment’

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Jan 162024

Don’t Fear the Masses Mr. Musk, Immigration Is America’s Genius

By Jonathan Decker

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In ‘American Fiction,’ An Excellent Depiction of a Politically Incorrect Professor

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Jan 152024

Mitch Daniels Needn’t Worry, Markets Will Worry for Him

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Jan 132024

If You’re Born American, You’re the Envy of the World

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Claudia Sahm Yearns For a ‘Soft Landing’ That the Fed Can’t Engineer

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Jan 102024

If Conservatives Loathe Harvard, Why All the Claudine Gay Outrage?

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Jan 82024

There’s Record U.S. Oil Extraction, That’s Why Oil Is So Expensive

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Jan 62024

Book Review: Michael Lewis’s Crucial ‘Going Infinite’

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Jan 52024

Retirement Savings Will Become the ‘4th Rail,’ Only for Taxes to Plummet

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Jan 42024

The Federal Reserve Can’t ‘Boost’ President Biden, or Any President

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Jan 32024

Student Loans Aren’t the Cause of Rising Tuition

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To Reduce Budget Deficits, Gut the IRS’s Budget

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Jan 12024

John Cochrane Should Give Producers a Hand, Not the Federal Reserve

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Congress Can’t Regulate What It Doesn’t Understand

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Dec 312023

The ‘Functional Collapse’ at the Southern Border Is Central Planning

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Dec 282023

The ‘Monoculture’ U.S. University Campus Fallacy

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Dec 262023

The Biggest Problem at the Federal Reserve Is a Lack of Original Thought

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Dec 252023

Market Signals Reject Fear of Rampant Socialism on Campus

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Dec 242023

Would Sam Bankman-Fried Face Prison Time If FTX Had Been Worth $32 Million?

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Congress Won’t Address the Debt, Markets Yawn. Listen to Markets

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Dec 232023

The Path To Lower Prices Has Little To Do With Monetary Policy

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Monetarism Is Suffocated By Its Endless Contradiction

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Contra Friedman’s Disciples, ‘Tight Money’ Doesn’t Slay Inflation

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Dec 192023

Hey Conservatives, More ‘Sticks and Stones,’ Less Speech Police

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Dec 182023

Henry Kissinger Hagiography Mistakes Real Foreign Policy Genius

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