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It’s Time to Focus on the "School" in "School Shooting"

Blog05/26/2018Thomas Eckert

With a near monopoly of school shootings, public schools nevertheless continue to escape any scrutiny.

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Is the Size of the Fed's Balance Sheet More Important than the Target Rate?

The Fed

03/22/2017Mises WireC.Jay Engel

Minneapolis Fed president Kashkari voted against the Fed's March hike, wants to focus on the balance sheet question before the rate hike question.

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Is the Era of Ultralow Interest Rates Coming to a Close?

The Fed

03/14/2017Mises WireC.Jay Engel

The financial press pretends that there's some grand shift away from the Fed's official low interest rate policy. This narrative is highly misleading.

Chilean Protesters Could End Chile's Decades of Progress

José Niño

The history of Latin America is filled with tragic stories of countries reaching great heights — Argentina and Venezuela come to mind — and then falling back to mediocrity. Chile could be next if the protesters get their way.

Teacher Unions Destroy School Accountability

Robert Fellner

The Clark County School District evaluated itself, and it determined that all the teachers and administrators are doing a great job — and by the way, the union deserves more money.

Why Central Banks Aren't Really Setting Interest Rates

Frank Shostak

Central banks can only distort and mask real interest rates with monetary policy. Interest rates are really set by each individual's time preference.

The Silicon Valley Gulag

Jason Morgan

In his new book Google Archipelago, Rectenwald asserts the Google Archipelago re-upping of Marx is not only practically Marxist, but conceptually and structurally so.