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Dec 222025

Mexico’s Vape Ban Fails Public Health, Plus Law and Order

By Jonathan Decker

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Dec 192025

Good Parenting Can’t Be Legislated: Australia Will Find Out the Hard Way

By John Tamny

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The Horrors of Memory Loss, the Possibility of Pharma Solutions

By John Tamny

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Dec 172025

Why Are Conservatives So Afraid of Netflix Buying Warner Brothers?

By John Tamny

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Ray Dalio’s Debt Alarmism Is Belied by His Genius As An Investor

By John Tamny

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Dec 152025

Herculean Power Of Compounding Runs Roughshod Over Fed

By John Tamny

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The End of Laziness Naturally Correlates With Falling Test Scores

By John Tamny

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Meta’s Antitrust Victory Brightens Social Media’s Future

By Jonathan Decker

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Dec 122025

If the Chinese Are Producing, the World Is Growing

By John Tamny

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Americans Grasped the Absurdity of Social Security, and Worked Around It

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Dec 102025

Lest We Forget, Blockbuster Twice Passed on Netflix

By John Tamny

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Peter Bauer Would Understand the Danger of Balanced Budgets

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Dec 92025

The Senate Is Well Positioned to Tackle the De-Banking Issue

By Jonathan Decker

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Dec 82025

Why Is Zohran Mamdani Ridiculed, Kevin Hassett Revered?

By John Tamny

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U.S. Test Scores Will Continue to Decline. It’s Very Bullish

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Dec 52025

With Tariffs and Trade, the Trump Administration Takes a Positive Step

By John Tamny

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Jensen Huang Will Do For Affordability What Zohran Mamdani Can’t

By John Tamny

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Amid Ongoing Attacks from Antitrust Ankle Biters, Business Evolves

By John Tamny

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Dec 32025

Is Artificial Intelligence the Latest Internet Mania? Let’s Hope!

By John Tamny

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California Is the Answer to the Federal Debt Riddle

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Dec 12025

Apple’s iPhone Eviscerates Federal Reserve’s Phillips Curve

By John Tamny

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Nov 282025

Why Was Lawrence Summers So In Demand to Begin With?

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Nov 272025

The Unseen When It Comes To Thanksgiving Is Enormous

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Nov 262025

There’s No Housing Crisis, There Are Just Emotional Pundits

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Nov 252025

If You’re Desperate, You Likely Don’t Have Much Debt

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Nov 242025

Governments Can ‘Print’ Money or Spend It, Surely Never Both

By John Tamny

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The World Is Improved By the Extraordinary, Who Get Up and Out

By John Tamny

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Nov 212025

Watch Out, It’s More Economic Analysis From An Economist

By John Tamny

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Book Review: Barry Diller’s Excellent “Who Knew”

By John Tamny

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Nov 192025

There’s No Such Thing As a K-Shaped Economy

By John Tamny

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If the U.S. Treasury Employed Fraudulent “MMT,” It Would Have No Debt

By John Tamny

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Fintechs Don’t Require Government Handouts for Data Access

By Jonathan Decker

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Nov 172025

Why Every Fed Official Should Eat At Akron’s Diamond Grille

By John Tamny

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DOT’s Google Gamble Ignores History

By Jonathan Decker

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Nov 142025

Sorry, but Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford Didn’t Create Zohran Mamdani

By John Tamny

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Short of Hoarding, China Can’t Keep ‘Rare Earths’ Out of the U.S.

By John Tamny

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If Border Closure Is Such Great Politics, What Happened On 11/4?

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Nov 132025

Raising the Social Security Retirement Age Would Be a Big Government Mistake

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Never Have Federal Tax Cuts Ever “Starved the Beast”

By John Tamny

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Nov 102025

As Jimmy Carter Rises In Right’s Eye, Remember Why He Lost

By John Tamny

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The Biggest Education Problem Isn’t Ideology, It’s Lazy Teachers

By John Tamny

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Nov 72025

Steven Miran Is Why We Can’t Trust Economists With the Economy

By John Tamny

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Zohran Mamdani Is a Logical Effect of a City That Won’t Stop Booming

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Nov 52025

Jensen Huang and Donald Trump Are Correct About Chinese Students

By John Tamny

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More Tax Revenue Won’t Solve a Problem of Too Much Tax Revenue

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Nov 32025

Gold Is a Better Equity Market Tell Than It’s Being Credited For

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The Unsung Compassion of the Smartphone

By John Tamny

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Book Review: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929”

By John Tamny

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The Data Center Proliferation Must Be About Much More Than Data

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Oct 292025

In Retirement, Do You Prefer Exposure to Dollars or People?

By John Tamny

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Would-Be Fed Appointees Vivify the Independence Myth

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Oct 272025

Wall Street, China Trample On Dollarization & Federal Reserve

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Isn’t a Biased, Left-Wing Media Evidence of Markets at Work?

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Oct 242025

No Matter What, China’s “Rare Earths” Will Flow to the United States

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The China and U.S. Birthrate “Crisis” Is Much Ado About Nothing

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Oct 222025

Gas-Powered Cars Would Have Crushed EVs In the ’80s and ’90s

By John Tamny

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$37 Trillion: The Screaming Tell About the Futility of Budgetary Balance

By John Tamny

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Oct 202025

Milei Can No More ‘Dollarize’ Than He Can Decree Happiness

By John Tamny

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Dyslexia As a Metaphor For the Misery of Laziness, Genius of Inequality

By John Tamny

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Oct 172025

Why Is Paul Ryan So Eager To Increase Federal Tax Revenues?

By John Tamny

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