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Jay Powell Said the Banking System Is "Sound and Resilient." Now More Banks Are in Trouble.

Money and Banks

Blog05/03/2023

If the Fed is serious about bringing down price inflation, it's difficult to see how the Fed can do that while also guaranteeing more liquidity to an obviously fragile banking system.

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Joe Biden and Protectionism: Continuing to Make America "Grate"

PoliticsProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog02/22/2023

Joe Biden likes taxes. So it should hardly be surprising that Biden has also embraced protectionism and is anti free-trade, which is fundamentally a pro-tax position. 

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Joe Biden Calls for the FTC to Resurrect the Robinson Patman Act. It's a Very Bad Idea

Bureaucracy and RegulationLegal SystemProgressivismU.S. Economy

Blog02/15/2023

The Biden administration wants to bring back a New Deal relic aimed at putting the old A&P grocery stores out of business. The law is anticonsumer and antientrepreneur.

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Just Say No to the New Forever War

ProgressivismWar and Foreign Policy

Blog01/16/2023

American and European political elites seem to be wanting the Russia-Ukraine war to be fought to the last Ukranian and have done nothing to bring peace. It's time for a change.

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January 6 Trials Remind Us Why We Must Abolish Seditious Conspiracy Laws

U.S. History

Blog12/03/2022

The January 6 trials remind us violence against a person or property should be prosecuted as exactly that, and not as a special category of crime against the regime.

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Joe Biden and the "Transformational" Presidency

LawProgressivism

Blog11/12/2022

Historian Jon Meacham urges Joe Biden to be a "transformational" president in the way of FDR, but he forgets that Roosevelt put the "Great" in "Great Depression."

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Jeff Bezos, Charity, and Economic Well-Being: Wealth Creation Reduces Poverty

CapitalismFree Markets

Blog11/08/2022

Amazon has done more to eradicate poverty than a hundred charities ever could.

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Julian Assange and Our Impunity Democracy

DemocracyThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog10/07/2022

Saturday's world-wide demonstrations calling for the release of Julian Assange might go unheeded by American political elites, but that does not diminish this simple truth: Assange is being punished for exposing lies and lawbreaking by the U.S. Government.

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