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"Virtue signaling" is not a new thing. In fact, society benefits from organizations that help communicate the virtues of its members. This facilitates trust in society, which then enhances commerce and trade. 

In November, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 3.48 percent. That was down from October's growth rate of 3.7 percent, but was up from November 2017's rate of 2.6 percent.

A respect for property rights will become all the more important in the age of "designer babies" and "gene editing."

In the era of relative market freedom, many of Venezuela's best years were during times of low oil prices. Trying to blame Venezuelan socialism's failure on oil prices only highlights how fragile economies are without markets.

This Christmas, countless workers will profit when others spend freely on "unnecessary" luxury goods.

Whether Christian or Jewish, public schools and their allies have long attempted to crush private religious schools. 

The ticket to the UN’s ideal of decent work is not regulation and legislation, but economic liberalization.

Not surprisingly, policies adopted by central bankers often serve the interests of the central banks themselves.

Oil prices did not cause the Venezuelan crisis. Nor can oil now be its cure.