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TweetRuss Roberts talks with Jennifer Burns about Milton Friedman. Kate Wand talks with Barry Brownstein about the ‘social-justice’ movement. Juliette Sellgren talks with my former Mercatus Center...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 8 of the 1993 Third Edition of the late Carlo Cipolla’s 1976 book, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700: [I]t is undeniable that one of the main...
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TweetPhil Magness and my GMU Econ colleague Vincent Geloso are correct: “It’s time to discard Piketty’s inequality statistics.” Three slices: The most recent of these is an article by David Splinter...
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TweetTunku Varadarajan reports on the ominous attempt to use Hillsdale College’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status as an excuse to subject this college – which receives no government funding – to...
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TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, Hank Adler and Lacy Willis express their hope that in the upcoming case of Moore v. U.S. the U.S. Supreme Court will clearly and reasonably define “income.” Two...
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TweetMichael Strain busts the “myth of the 1%.” A slice: This considerable improvement in Americans’ well-being is more striking than the share of income accruing to the country’s highest earners....
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TweetIn my latest column for AIER, I relate a frustrating conversation that I recently had with a graduate student enrolled at an elite university. A slice: Don: “I want to challenge your claim about...
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TweetGeorge Leef points us to a report on Harvard’s desperate effort to save face in light of its refusal to dismiss plagiarist Claudine Gay from its presidency. Even Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post...
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TweetBrad Polumbo asks if the panic over income inequality was based on a mistake (or appallingly sloppy scholarship). Two slices: Few topics have animated more intense mainstream-media coverage and...
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TweetThe Wall Street Journal‘s Editorial Board wisely rejects Donald Trump’s and Robert Lighthizer’s case for protectionism. A slice: This reveals what tariffs often do in real life, which is to rob...
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TweetGMU Econ alum Scott Drylie reflects on a very perceptive take by comedian Chris Rock on the minimum wage. A slice: His boss responds sympathetically to Chris’s ultimatum, “I like having you...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 124 of Milton and Rose Friedman’s essential 1962 volume, Capitalism and Freedom: If unions raise wage rates in a particular occupation or industry, they necessarily make the amount...
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Tweet“The Rich Aren’t Rich Enough to Balance the Federal Budget” – so explains Brian Riedl in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. A slice: In a study for the Manhattan Institute, I set upper-income...
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TweetAt Law & Liberty, Phil Magness today exposes several of the many misunderstandings that infect Oren Cass’s January 2nd essay at that site. Four slices: Cass begins his historical account with...
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Tweet… is from page 108 of Thomas Sowell’s 2023 book, Social Justice Fallacies (original emphasis): Again, there is no fixed or predestined total amount of income or wealth to be shared. If people are...
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TweetGMU Econ alum Dominic Pino is rightly, highly critical of Tucker Carlson’s oooohhing and aaahhing over Moscow. Also criticizing Carlson is Charles Cooke. GMU Econ alum Alex Salter exposes the...
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TweetRobert Tracinski pushes back against those (many) people who insist on repeating the myth that manufacturing in the United States is disappearing. Three slices: But none of this is true. U.S....
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TweetGMU Econ alum Shruti Rajagopalan interviews the great trade economist Douglas Irwin. David Henderson ponders Thomas Piketty and Taylor Swift. Two slices: Think about how Taylor Swift began her...
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TweetHere’s the abstract of a new working paper by Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Kasey Chatterji-Len, and William Nober (emphasis added): (HT David Levey) Household surveys suffer from...
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TweetGeorge Will explains why the reality of income inequality in America is unwelcome on both the political left and right. Two slices: In more than 50 years, government transfer payments (Medicaid,...
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