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Like It or Not, People From “Shithole Countries” Created the United States

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The people on the Mayflower were lower middle class, and largely British. Which means they were lower middle-class arrivals from a country that was very poor. As Niall Ferguson wrote in his 2004 book Empire, the England of the 17th century was far, far from the one of the 19th century. While economic measures are powerfully flawed on their […]

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Don’t Worry, The U.S. Is Not Going the Way of Socialism

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The Washington Post didn’t report it, but Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser recently attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new restaurant (Wheelhouse) in the high-end, Chevy Chase area of DC. Except that Bowser is a Democrat, and Democrats are said to loathe business. No doubt there’s rhetorical truth to the above, but as always with the left,

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Nothing About Being Born In the U.S. Makes You a Victim

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“The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world, before passing it on to us.” That was John F. Carter, in the Atlantic Monthly. It was September 1920, and Carter was channeling what he thought to be a post-WWI rage within young Americans over their inheritance of “this thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot,

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

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The U.S. could be 100% bereft of “rare earths” while at war with and embargoed by rare earth rich China, but we’d still have all the rare earths we want stateside, and as though they were all sourced here. It’s simple because economics is simple. To see why all the rare earth hysteria is

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

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As reported in The Deficit Delusion, Sam Altman and other Silicon Valley giants are in the midst of a bet. It concerns not if, but when the first one-man “unicorn” will reveal itself. Altman and friends’ wager is useful to keep in mind as demographic experts promote the narrative that China faces a troubled economic future

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The Iran Discussion Would Be Lots Improved By a Little Tolstoy

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Central planning fails, always and everywhere. Leo Tolstoy wasn’t the first to see this, but he provided readers with one of the best articulations of the previous truth in War and Peace. In it, Tolstoy rejected all the “great man” theories of war. He’d seen war up close, and knew that the natural human instinct

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The Rise of DeepSeek Is Unreservedly Bullish For the U.S.

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Oil is the most important commodity in the world when it comes to human flourishing, and nothing else comes close. Stop and think about how intensely inconvenient and impoverished life would be without the goods and services made possible by oil, along with the remarkable advances in work productivity that never would have happened

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