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Renewables and EVs in the Grip of Lesseps Syndrome

SocialismStrategyU.S. Economy

Blog12/02/2022

The so-called green energy strategy is no strategy at all. Instead, it is an attempt to cripple the energy industries in vain hopes that renewables will magically cover the energy shortfall.

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Relying on Experts: A Proven Path to Failure

EducationProgressivismStrategy

Blog11/19/2022

American political, educational, and economic life is increasingly dominated by "experts." We should not be surprised that they fail most of the time.

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Real Wages Fell for the Nineteenth Month in a Row in October as Inflation Remained Entrenched

Blog11/10/2022

Price inflation is slightly slowing, but it is slowing as a result of a struggling economy. The White House may soon find it is celebrating much too soon. 

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Rothbard on Gold

HayekGold StandardMonetary Theory

At a time when inflation once again ravages the dollar, we recall Murray Rothbard's wisdom in his article "The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar."

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Review of Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

Bureaucracy and RegulationLawStrategy

Blog10/24/2022

Law Professor David Bernstein looks at the system of racial classifications in the USA and explains why they have been harmful.

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Regime Pseudoscientists Enforce Climate Change Narrative

The EnvironmentProgressivism

Blog10/10/2022

Researchers that are skeptical of many current climate change narratives are derisively called "deniers." However, because skepticism itself is a foundation of scientific analysis, skeptics tend to be rational-analytic thinkers and less likely to embrace false theories.

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Review: How to Think about the Economy

HayekAustrian Economics Overview

Blog09/23/2022

Per Bylund has written a book on economics that is understandable to the layperson as well as presents economics the way it should be done: a science grounded in understanding human action.

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Review: Free Market: The History of an Idea

Free MarketsProgressivismSocialism

Blog09/16/2022

Jacob Soll believes that a truly successful economy must embody at least some of the economic regulation developed by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French finance minister under Louis XIV.

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