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Nosebleed Home Prices Are a Brilliant Signal, Not a Call for Policy

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People travel from around the world to visit Brooklyn. The “outer borough” formerly known as “Crooklyn” is increasingly a destination for travelers the world over. As David Ibsen, executive director of Americans for Free Markets explains it, family members regularly visit him without entering Manhattan. Ibsen lives in Manhattan, and while living there has […]

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

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In 2022, Mexico’s politicians banned vaping products, hailing it as a public health victory. In practice, it did the opposite — pushing millions into an unregulated black market now controlled by powerful cartels. By outlawing a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, the government handed criminals a new revenue stream and empowered corrupt police to

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The ICE Raids Are Anti-Business, Anti-Conservative, and Anti-American

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“Acouple employees left for the rest of the day. They were pretty rattled.” Those were the words of multi-restaurant owner and Georgetown Events Hospitality Group president Bo Blair, in a Washington Post report by Tim Carman, Warren Rojas, and Maria Luisa Paul. Blair was referencing the arrival of ICE agents at various restaurants in town, including at

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It’s In the Pessimism and Policy Errors That Recovery Can Be Found

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He may still turn things around, but it’s a shame about President Trump and the economy. All he had to do was nothing, and what they refer to as “the economy” would be soaring now. Of course, Trump wouldn’t be president if he had it within him to do nothing. Which is why every president

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New Yorkers Are Too Talented To Be Restrained by Bad Policy

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“He was just the waiter.” That’s what one of the owners of legendary New York steakhouse Peter Luger said about Wolfgang Zwiener. “All” he’d done over the decades was wait tables at Luger’s, and this ordinary former employee was in the process of opening his own, eponymous steakhouse to compete not just with Luger’s,

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An Envious U.S. Political Class Protests the Chinese Eating

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“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of

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Here’s How Harris Could Govern Differently from Biden

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Kamala Harris has been short on ideas recently on how she would govern differently than President Biden. Here’s a suggestion: promise to cut off Biden’s antitrust attack dogs. Google is currently awaiting penalty from Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), which alleges the company operates as a monopoly in digital advertising, causing consumer harm. The issue is

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The Real Danger of Artificial Intelligence Is Delay

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The New York Times recently reported on the latest calls for more government regulation—even on an international scale—over the field of artificial intelligence due to perceived risks. Such commentary has seemingly become ubiquitous both in the media and from policymakers in D.C. who, while well-intentioned, seem to owe reflection to the broader picture of why developing

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