World History

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Ryan McMaken

It's possible to buy fireworks in Wyoming that are illegal in Colorado. So Wyoming merchants have placed a number of huge fireworks shops about two minutes from the border. It's quite convenient for Coloradans planning to ignore local laws. 

David Gordon

Capitalism isn't unique to any particular group. People with the drive to save and invest have always existed; but the idea that this instinct was immoral had to be overcome for markets to flourish. 

Brendan Brown

Whether today's Great Monetary Inflation (which began in 2011) will end with sustained CPI inflation remains a wide-open question at this point. Prices could be reined in as in the 1990s, or a 1970s-style inflation could still be in store.

Ryan McMaken

Over the past 200 years, Europeans have held many elections to decide secession questions. In some cases, these votes were used in the creation of an entirely new sovereign state. 

James Bovard

Biden's plan to give more money to Central American regimes will do nothing to compensate farmers, businessmen, and others still victimized by the US war on drugs.

Robert Blumen

Keynes's early critics repeatedly demolished Keynes's theories, pointing  out countless fallacies behind the so-called "new economics." Yet Keynes and his theories only gained in popularity. Why? 

Lipton Matthews

Many factors help explain the rise of the West, including both decentralization and the embrace of laissez-faire. But Europe's unusual pattern of family formation is also a likely and important factor.