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Christopher Westley
Nearly half of Americans have no money for even moderately serious emergencies. This results from decisions we've made, both personal and political.
Louis Rouanet
The “constant flicker” of American life described by Fitzgerald in his novel is no less than the artificial boom driven by the Fed during the 1920s.
Ryan McMaken
Trump has declared that homicide rates are at a 47-year high. The real data suggests we're closer to a 50-year low.
Jeff Deist
We study probability and statistics for the same reason we study economics: we want to make sense of the world.
Douglas French
The new movie Gold is a case study in entrepreneurship — and a lesson on how entrepreneurs often fail.
Jonathan Newman
Don't compare incomes today to incomes of long-ago time periods. The wealth and choices available to income-earners has changed drastically over time.
Ryan McMaken
Experience suggests that advertising and propaganda aren't as powerful as we assume them to be. This has both economic and political implications.
Matthew McCaffrey

A lack of entrepreneurial and managerial direction prevented Valve from coordinating enough to focus on developing a new Half-Life.

Jason Jewell

In a new book Literature and Liberty, Allen Mendenhall brings a fresh eye to literary criticism — a discipline long marred by doctrinaire Marxism.

Matthew McCaffrey

The bias in favor of "education" is a bias in favor of the opinions of the intellectual classes: it is a devotion to the status quo.