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American Prosperity Is Greater than Most of Us Realize

Economic FreedomU.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog09/08/2023

Compared to how most other people in the world live, Americans have a high standard of living. And despite the talk about inequality, there is more economic and social mobility here than anyplace else.

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The Imperial Russian Regime was Neither "Great" nor "Enlightened"

Blog09/07/2023

But what are we to make of the legacy of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Russian Empire in general? Certainly, we should not take our cues from the likes of either Volodymyr Zelensky or Vladimir Putin. 

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Power Vacuum: How the State Wants to Suck Electricity from the SUV You Are Required to Buy

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyProgressivism

Blog09/07/2023

Because California’s government has hamstrung electricity producers in the state, its legislature now wants EVs to be “bidirectional,” that is, to put power from their batteries back into the grid.

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Consumer Credit Is Expanding Even While the Fed Pushes up Interest Rates

InflationMonetary PolicyTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

Blog09/07/2023

As the economy slowly deteriorates, consumer debt rises. In the meantime, the Fed is pushing up interest rates to deal with the inflation it caused. This does not end well.

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Statism Stands against Free Trade and Free Association

Cronyism and CorporatismEconomic FreedomProtectionism and Free TradePhilosophy and Methodology

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

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Let's Examine Some REAL Crimes Committed by Presidents

LawLegal SystemPolitics

Blog09/06/2023

The ruling classes have determined that crimes are political in nature. Thus, Donald Trump faces criminal charges while actual crimes by other presidents go uncharged and unpunished.

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Mises versus Hayek on the Future of Civilization

HayekCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryPraxeology

Blog09/05/2023

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

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Decentralization Is Not Fascism

Economic FreedomProgressivismSocialismPolitical Theory

Blog09/05/2023

Marxists and leftist progressives have falsely tried to label anything associated with capitalism and free markets as "fascism." The same goes for political decentralization.

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