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Tweet“Immigrants make it a World Series,” writes Stuart Anderson. “The defenders of the Affordable Care Act are running out of excuses for the dismal performance of its health care exchanges,” writes...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from my great colleague Walter Williams’s latest column, “The Rich and Us” (emphasis added): Let’s look at the power of the rich. With all the money that [Bill] Gates, [Jeff] Bezos and other...
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Tweet… is from page 71 of Ben Rogge’s superb 1979 speech “What Economists Can and Cannot Do,” as this speech is reprinted in A Maverick’s Defense of Freedom, the 2010 collection of Rogge’s essays that...
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TweetMy Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy argues that freedom of association should be more fashionable. Ryan Young offers advice on how to shrink the gusher of midnight regulations. Here’s...
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TweetHere’s a new and excellent essay by Deirdre McCloskey. A slice: The mechanism seems to be that, when a sensitive adolescent in a nonslave society first notices that some people are much poorer...
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TweetIn this short video, Johan Norberg busts some common myths about trade. Enjoy – and learn! The post Busting More Myths About Free Trade appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
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TweetIn this short video, Mike Munger explains the origin of the word “sabotage.” Here’s a tale from Christmas Past (and a lesson for Christmas Present), with David Boaz at the Helms. Elhanan Helpman...
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TweetWriting in the New York Times, Deirdre McCloskey explains that the poor are enriched by market-driven economic growth and not by government-enforced ‘redistribution.’ A slice: A practical...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 203 of UCLA economist William Allen’s wonderful 1989 collection of the transcripts of his radio addresses, The Midnight Economist; specifically, it’s from Allen’s April 1988 radio...
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TweetHere’s the latest installment of George Selgin’s invaluable Primer on Monetary Policy. A slice: To get a handle on the Fed’s contribution to the [2008 financial] crisis, one must be willing to do...
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TweetNobel laureate economist Angus Deaton sings the praises of globalization. (HT Yann Nicolas) A slice: The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has...
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TweetHere’s what my colleague Bryan Caplan learned in 2016. By his own admission, it really wasn’t a lot. A slice: Since I think that most news is overblown fluff, I have little sympathy for the...
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TweetJeff Jacoby correctly and rightly slams Trump’s economically lunatic scheme to “Make America Great Again” with protectionism. A slice: Not even Trump claims there is anything unpatriotic about...
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TweetFor students who are excited to learn sound economics more deeply. My Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold has a few pertinent questions for U.S. Trade Representative-designate Robert...
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TweetAt lunch today in California with my friend Chris Rufer, we discussed, among other topics, production and consumption. The following is a distillation of an important point that Chris made – a...
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TweetCato’s Chris Edwards proposes sound alternatives to what I suspect would be the calamitous-in-practice “border-adjustment” tax scheme now proposed by many in the GOP. David Henderson is correct...
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TweetTrump continues to stomp and snort as if he’s lord of a banana republic; in this case, he threatens to quiet the forces that are aligned against the banana-republic-like practice of civil asset...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 390 of the 1964 W. Hayden Boyers translation, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, of Frederic Bastiat‘s 1850 treatise, Economic Harmonies (available on-line here):...
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Estella Ryan Gerding (1917-1996)
TweetMy youngest grandparent – my mom’s mother – was born 100 years ago today. Estella Ryan came into this world, in New Orleans, on the day that Woodrow Wilson was sworn into his second term as U.S....
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy continues her noble and economically justified fight against the GOP’s border-adjustment tax proposal. Ed Dolan explains that the data show...
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