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Aug 82025

Trump Should Have Fired the BLS Because It’s Unnecessary, Not Just Wrong

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Taxation Is Easily the Least Harmful Aspect of Government Spending

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Aug 62025

Why Would Kevin Warsh Shrink Himself To Get Back to the Fed?

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Luckin’s Arrival In the U.S. Is Bad News For the Birthrate-Obsessed

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Aug 42025

The Fed Isn’t What John Cochrane Wants It to Be, Never Was

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Beware the Pundits Who Think They Speak For Us

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Aug 12025

Book Review: Salvatore Basile’s “Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything”

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A Worthless Number (GDP) Rises Not Due to Growth, But Because It’s Worthless

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Jul 302025

No, Jerome Powell Is Not the Hero of Today’s Economy

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Replying to Michael Munger Replying to John Tamny On SALT, Debt

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The Fatal Conceit of National Debt “Hawkery”

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Forced Foreign Investment Is the Most Embarrassing Aspect of Trump’s Trade Deals

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Jul 282025

Ben Bernanke & Janet Yellen’s Inflation Mystification Ails Fed

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Americans Don’t Hate Immigrants, They Hate Central Planning

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Jul 252025

Book Review: Simon Kuper’s “Impossible City: Paris In the 21st Century”

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$100,000+ State Retirees In Illinois Speak to the Urgency of a SALT Credit

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Soaring Wealth Inequality Is the Greatest Retirement Gift of All

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Without Billionaires, There Would Be No Medicare and No Debt

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Jul 212025

Hassett Wants To Be Fed Chair. That Is What’s So Dangerous

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Jerome Powell’s Critics and Supporters Alike Beclown Themselves

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Jul 182025

Book Review: Mark Shupe’s “The Moneyball Method”

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Excessive Federal Taxes Foist California and New York Onto All of the U.S.

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Jul 162025

There’s No ‘Retirement Crisis,’ LeBron James Shows Why

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If the U.S. Ever Needs the ‘Printing Press,’ It Will Have No Debt

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Jul 142025

Economists: The Only Barrier To Return To The Gold Standard

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Anna Wintour Is a Brilliant Reminder That the Customer Is Always Wrong

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Jul 112025

Conservatives Adopt Left-Wing Tactics To Allegedly Fix Universities

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To Limit the Federal Government, Texas Should Levy a State Income Tax

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Jul 92025

Let the Market Punish Corporate Mistakes, Not the Federal Government

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Markets Will Tell Us When We’ve Borrowed Too Much

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Jul 72025

Say It Routinely, The Fed Isn’t Nor Can It Ever Be ‘Independent’

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Robots Will Make the Need for Immigrants More Urgent Than Ever

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Hulu’s “The Bear” Points To a Brilliant Work Future

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Jul 32025

John Maynard Keynes Resides Inside Right-of-Center SALT Critics

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Jul 22025

Finding Abundant Optimism In the Zohran Mamdani Mistake

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While Correctly Decrying ‘Big Beautiful’ Spin, Deficit Hawks Should Look In the Mirror

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Jun 302025

If Fed Cuts Fuel Inflation, Then Powell Has Nothing To Fear

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Love or Hate Immigrants, They Do Not Drive Down Wages

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Jun 272025

Book Review: Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs”

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We Haven’t Scratched the Surface of Weight-Loss Drug Advances

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Jun 252025

Social Security’s Faux ‘Insolvency’ Is a Limited Government Feature

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“Balanced Budgets”: One of the Most Fraudulent Notions In Economics

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Fred Smith Was Too Smart for Joseph Schumpeter, and Donald Trump

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Jun 232025

No, Yet Again, Federal Reserve Did Not Cause the Depression

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The Iran Discussion Would Be Lots Improved By a Little Tolstoy

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Jun 202025

High Pay at Buc-ee’s Rejects the Left and Right’s Economics

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The Myths About “Trump Voters” and Their Preferences

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With Temu Attacks, We See Politicians Were Sadly Never Stopping at TikTok

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Jun 182025

Bitcoin Will Never Circulate As Money, But Amazon and Walmart Will

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Spending Cuts Won’t Shrink Government, and May Well Expand It

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Jun 162025

France’s CAC 40: Nail In the ‘Fed-As-Market-Opium’ Narrative

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Adam Smith Would Have Appreciated Brian Wilson

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Jun 132025

Book Review: Shadi Hamid’s ‘The Problem of Democracy’

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AI Will Transform Medicine, Particularly If Trump Lets It

By Jonathan Decker

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Rand Paul Is Trying to Save the U.S., Ukraine, and the World from Lindsey Graham

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Jun 112025

Would You Cheer for Tariffs on Sure-Fire Cancer Cures?

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Why the Self-Proclaimed Deficit ‘Hawks’ Have Always Been Wrong

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Congress Contemplates What Might Be the World’s Cruelest Tax

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Jun 92025

Harvard Is Fine, the Problem Is the ’60 Second Harvard Men’

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What’s Harder? Planning Rates, or Harvard’s Class Of 2029?

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