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Since public schools are funded through tax dollars, the schools don't really care if their safety measures are done in a way that treats students with the sort of respect paying customers would likely receive.

It's thanks to markets and entrepreneurs that turkeys, toys, and Christmas trees can be mass produced and delivered to a great many ordinary people at a reasonable price.

Bureaucrats manipulate government shutdowns so that they are likely to produce the political outcomes the bureaucrats want. 

While efforts to mandate "equality of outcome" are rightly derided, "equality of opportunity" is wrongly held up as essential. But even when we face unequal opportunities, the marketplace can still make us all better off.

EU negotiators have done all they can to hinder the Brexit process. But freedom from the EU's trade straitjacket would, of course, be best for the UK.

M1 and the monetary base are almost equal at this time, but this is unprecedented in modern monetary history, as usually the monetary base is a fraction of M1.

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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."