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Real ID Is Not About Keeping You Safe
May 7, 2025
Real ID is the latest example of the government using 9/11 as an excuse to grab more power.
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Fed keeps Fed Funds rate unchanged.
May 7, 2025
"the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent." Click here for post-FOMC
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Inflation: Looking Beyond Aggregates
May 7, 2025
Mainstream economists define inflation as the increase in an imaginary “price level” that is relatively neutral in its effects. Austrian economists, however,
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Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of Political Divide
May 7, 2025
Free markets and free minds must push back against the mercantilist and populist policies associated with current Keynesians; we must draw upon
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Understanding The Importance of Justice
May 6, 2025
When people speak of “social justice,” they are not speaking of justice in any historical form but rather an imaginary state of
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The Fallacy of Optimal Tariffs
May 6, 2025
Mainstream economists have been obsessed with finding “optimal” tax rates, and Nicholas Kaldor‘s 1940 formalization of the “optimal” tariff is no exception.
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Trump keeps claiming gas prices are at $1.98 per gallon.
May 6, 2025
One of Trump's more bizarre claims recently is that gasoline now costs less than $2 per gallon. As every casual observer knows,
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Alberta says it could vote on separation from Canada next year
May 6, 2025
Unlike the US, Canada (at least on paper) recognizes a legal right to secession. Alberta gov't now says it may vote on
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Food stamps have always been a subsidy for agriculture and food special interests
May 6, 2025
The government loads $328 billion of your tax care money on the EBT cards for SNAP recipients, and they go into the