“You deserve happiness.” How many times have readers heard the latter? It’s accepted wisdom, but also nonsensical. Happiness is hard. The founding fathers knew this. They decreed a right to pursue happiness, but not the state of happiness itself. That’s like decreeing prosperity. Impossible… Continue reading on Forbes.
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While agreeing with Javier Milei’s reforms, this opinion piece asks if he got the order wrong. Up front, what’s not to like about Milei firing tens of thousands of government workers, his shuttering of 9 out of 18 government ministries, and his freezing of various government projects? Milei did right because government is an
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Perhaps Javier Milei’s economic reform program has been oversold by Milei, along with myriad free-market proponents in the United States. That’s not a dig at free markets. It’s just a comment that if Milei were really pursuing market-oriented reforms, Argentina wouldn’t require U.S. aid. Just the same, that Argentina is apparently in need
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No individual, no corporation, and no country ever runs out of money. Ever. What all three run out of is investor trust. The above truth rates frequent repeat in light of a recent news account about Javier Milei, Argentina’s president. The report indicated what’s well known, that President-elect Donald Trump is a big fan of Milei’s.
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Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has long said in print, on television and in person that a focus on economic growth misses the point. Paraphrasing Crane, if the people are free they’ll have all the economic growth they could ever want. It’s something to remember as Cato stages an online policy forum focused on Argentina, and
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