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Oct 172025

Book Review: Martin Cruz Smith’s “Gorky Park”

By John Tamny

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Oct 152025

Falling Inflation Predicts Rising Government Spending and Debt

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Internal Error Is the Only Way China Could Surpass Us

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Oct 132025

To Buy Gold Is To Hide Precious Knowledge In A Coffee Can

By John Tamny

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ICE Raids Sanctify Layabouts at the Expense of Doers

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Oct 102025

Sorry Keynesians, Housing Has Nothing To Do With Economic Growth

By John Tamny

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What baseball teaches us about transportation

By Jonathan Decker

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The Public School vs. Private School Education Fallacy

By John Tamny

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Oct 82025

If They Offer ‘Rewards’ For Deposited Stablecoins, Aren’t They Banks?

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The Markets Keep Telling Us the National Debt Is the Easy Part

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Sam Altman vs. Economists & Their Central Bank Mysticism

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Javier Milei’s Policies Are Right, But the Order Was Wrong

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Oct 32025

Conservatives Go John Maynard Keynes With Their Birthrate Obsession

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The Democrats Should ‘Rush to China’ On Social Security

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Oct 12025

Cracker Barrel Rejects the Dispossessed, ‘Trump Voter’ Narrative

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Robert Moses Showed That Spending Cuts Just Feed the Spenders

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Sep 292025

There’s No Dollar ‘Demand’ & ‘Supply’: There’s Only Production

By John Tamny

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If Javier Milei Is a Free Market Hero, Then He Doesn’t Need U.S. Aid

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Sep 262025

The Global Payments System Is a Miracle…But It’s Not Cheap

By John Tamny

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A 1986 Thomas Sowell Column Decries a Victim Culture That Won’t Die

By John Tamny

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195 Million Prime Members Wrecks the FTC’s Case Against Amazon

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$37 Trillion Debt Vivifies the Perils of Future Budgetary Balance

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Sep 222025

Do “the Markets” Really Want Federal Reserve to Lower Rates?

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There Are No Lazy or Stupid People, There’s Just a Lack of Progress

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Sep 192025

President Trump Owes His Base Strong Words About the Weak Dollar

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Sep 182025

To Keep Us Safe From China, Trump Must Allow Chinese Goods In

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Let’s Not Trivialize a Tragedy With Internet, Trans and Videogame Banalities

By John Tamny

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Basic Market Logic Tells Us the Middle Class Won’t Pay Off the National Debt

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Sep 152025

As Milton Friedman Did, Trump Mistakes the Power of the Fed

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Trump Can Have Booming Growth or Deportations, Not Both

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Sep 122025

What Might Follow a Pill to Heal the Brain From Stroke?

By John Tamny

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Book Review: Simon Kuper’s “Chums”

By John Tamny

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Sep 102025

There Are No “Forgotten Americans,” There’s Just Individual Error

By John Tamny

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$37T In Debt Doesn’t Fuel Prosperity, It’s An Overwhelming Sign of It

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Sep 82025

The Fed As Source Of Econ. Growth Is A Monstrous Delusion

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Ardent Vaccine Supporters Shouldn’t Fear Florida’s Lack of a Mandate

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The Markets Will Speak Regardless of the Fed’s So-Called “Independence”

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Sep 52025

The Bigger Economic Meaning of a Smaller, Post-Katrina New Orleans

By John Tamny

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With Each Passing Day, Robots Are Enhancing the Value of Workers

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Sep 22025

Why a Balanced Budget Is the True Immoral Burden for the “Grandkids”

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Buffett’s Bearishness Tramples on the ‘Money Multiplier’ Myth

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The End of Laziness Will Run Roughshod Over Income Guarantees

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Aug 292025

Mike Gallagher Owes Us Peace, Not Lucrative Anti-China Rhetoric

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Book Review: Ed Zwick’s “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions”

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Aug 272025

Dear Conservatives: the Universities Didn’t Do It, Neither Did Hollywood

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California Is Dense With Billionaires, Of Course It Has Lots of Debt

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If Trump Economy Is “Booming,” Then It Doesn’t Need The Fed

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Aug 252025

To Empty the U.S.’s Borders, Legalize the Arrival of Workers

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Aug 222025

If E.J. Antoni Is As Bad As His Critics Say, We All Win

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Book Review: Max Frankel’s Endlessly Excellent “The Times of My Life”

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Aug 202025

Donald Trump Panicked In March of 2020, and D.C. Never Recovered

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Julian Simon Redux: Treasury Rates Across the Curve Are Going Down

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Aug 182025

The Major Economic Lesson In the Life of Jacklyn Bezos

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Let’s Please Not Insult Immigration With “High-Skilled” Central Plans

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Aug 152025

Ed Crane Has Always Seen a Growing Electorate Beyond the Two Parties

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Since the Rich Are Overtaxed, Americans Won’t Get to Escape Social Security

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Aug 132025

Pharmaceuticals, AI Make Growing Old Great Again

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Greg Mankiw’s Solutions Are the Path To Much More Federal Debt

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Aug 112025

Federal Reserves ‘Interest On Reserves’ Doesn’t Limit Inflation

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When the U.S. Takes a Break From Reality, Millions Don’t Eat

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