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Decorum Propels DC Deceit

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismPoliticsWar and Foreign Policy

Blog02/13/2023

The president's SOTU speech has become an annual presentation of a new set of White House lies. But official Washington believes it is worse to publicly boo false statements than to make them.

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Subsidizing Higher Education Is Not Creating Widespread External Benefits

Cronyism and CorporatismEducation

Blog02/04/2023

Contrary to the claim that taxpayer subsidies for higher education provide great social benefits, these subsidies actually are a wealth transfer from the less-well-off to wealthy people.

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Argentina and Brazil Look to Establish a Common Currency

Cronyism and CorporatismMonetary PolicyProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog02/03/2023

Two nations famous for hyperinflation now look to create a common currency. Unless that currency is gold, this is a bad idea.

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Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments

Booms and BustsCorporate WelfareCronyism and CorporatismInterventionism

Blog01/31/2023

The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania.

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Infective Maltruism: Is Charity Still Charity When It Is Performed for Uncharitable Reasons?

Cronyism and CorporatismProgressivism

Blog01/11/2023

What often passes as charity today is little more than progressive billionaires trying to force the Great Reset on unwilling subjects.

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The FDA and the Courts Fail to Truly Discipline the Pharmaceutical Industry for Exploiting the Mentally Ill

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareCronyism and Corporatism

Blog01/07/2023

Does the regulatory system help guarantee safe and effective drugs? Does the system protect drug consumers? Court cases tell us otherwise.

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Again the Government Is Taking Antitrust Action against Microsoft. Again This Is Wrong.

Cronyism and CorporatismEconomic PolicyFree Markets

Blog01/06/2023

The Federal Trade Commission seeks an anti-trust judgment against Microsoft for its move to acquire Activision. Like all other anti-trust action, this one has no economic merits.

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Globalization, Not Globalism: Free Trade versus Destructive Statist Ideology

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismFree MarketsProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog01/04/2023

Relatively free trade and capital mobilization have greatly raised living standards in recent years. Yet those that call themselves globalists are less interested in trade than in unipolar political power, pushing violent, disastrous schemes.

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Industrial Policy Did Not Bring Prosperity to Asia

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivismSocialism

Blog12/28/2022

Forty years ago, American politicians claimed that Japanese economic success was due to government economic planning. Unfortunately, the myth of industrial policy never seems to die, no matter how many times it is discredited.

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