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Interest Rates and the Marshmallow Test

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog14 hours ago

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.

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The Week in Review: October 15, 2016

Media and CultureStrategyMoney and BankingPolitical Theory

Blog14 hours ago

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

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The Case for Unilateral Free Trade

Blog10/13/2016

We can have free trade now by declaring it unilaterally. The motto should be: liberalize first, negotiate later.

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Repealing the 17th Amendment Won't Fix the Senate

U.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

Blog10/13/2016

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

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How We Lost Economics

EducationStrategy

Blog10/13/2016

We allowed economics to be lost when we decided it was too complicated and too technical for intelligent laypeople to understand.

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The Philosophy of Gun Control

Blog10/12/2016

In the new book Debating Gun Control, two philosophers take a look at the philosophical underpinnings beneath the debate.

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