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The January 6 “Insurrection” that Wasn‘t
After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—“insurrection.”...
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The Disintegration of Buckleyite Conservatism
The American conservative movement has changed with the advent of MAGA and the economic nationalism associated with it. However, there...
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Why Smart People Are Rightly Confused About Tariffs
We're told that tariffs are going to do all sorts of great things. Mark Thornton sets the record straight.
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Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse
Bob walks through diagrams from Hayek's famous LSE lectures to explain the Austrian view of the boom-bust cycle.
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Interest Rates, Computational Boosts, and the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
One of the unique features of Austrian economics is a coherent and consistent theory of business cycles. To understand business...
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How Child Labor Laws Violate the Rights of Minors
Everyone wants to protect children and what better way to do that than having labor laws that keep young children...
Read moreChild Labor Laws Protect Minors but Harm Individuals
Everyone wants to protect children and what better way to do that than having labor laws that keep young children...
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Fiscal Federalism: Local Funding of Wheelchair Curb-cuts Could Pave the Way to Federal Deficit Reduction
As reality tells us that federal spending needs to be cut drastically, that means that local projects will need to...
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