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Biden’s New Intersectionality: Where Equity Policies Meet Bad Economics

Economic PolicyPoliticsProgressivismU.S. EconomyInterventionism

Blog05/15/2023

The Biden administration has decided that the REAL problem with housing is that the wrong people are saving money and making timely mortgage payments. They must be punished.

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Boeing 737 MAX Disasters' Root Cause Was Government Regulation

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomLegal System

Blog04/08/2023

When the Boeing 737 MAX had two crashes, the usual suspects called for more regulation. It turns out that the crashes were due more to regulatory failure than anything else.

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Biden's Wealth Tax Is a Trojan Horse Requiring Multiple Manipulations

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationPoliticsTaxes and Spending

Blog04/06/2023

President Biden pushes a wealth tax as a measure of "fairness." Not only is it unconstitutional, but it's also bad for the economy.

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Bipartisanship Is Not a Substitute for Voluntary Exchange

DemocracyFree MarketsPoliticsProgressivism

Blog03/28/2023

Politicians tout "bipartisanship"—that often just means one's pocket will be picked even more cleanly.

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Biden's Executive Order on Equity: It Will Create Greater Inequality

Bureaucracy and RegulationPhilosophy

Blog03/06/2023

President Biden's executive order to "strengthen equity" in the federal government is doomed to fail. It will create a lot of havoc in the meantime.

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Biden versus Bastiat

Economic PolicyFree MarketsProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog02/23/2023

President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes.

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Biden Is Lying about the Jobs Data

Blog01/09/2023

It's only a good time to be a worker in America if one confuses falling real wages and falling full-time employment with robust employment conditions. 

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Behavioral Economics Challenges the Rationality of Consumer Choices

Praxeology

Blog12/29/2022

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.

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