Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
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Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
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The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The…
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Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado…
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Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction,…
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Thomas A. Berry Are you graduating from law school in 2026, or are you a lawyer with roughly 0–2 years of legal experience? Do…
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While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the US economy into ruin. The latest Fed capers…
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Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take…
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For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.
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A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.