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Price Inflation Hit Multi-Month Highs in July, but Trump Wants More Easy Money
August 20, 2025
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What is Economics and What Makes a Good Economist?
August 20, 2025
Economics, at its core, is the study of cause-and-effect relationships—analyzing how scarce resources, which have alternative uses, are allocated.
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The Double Standards of Court Historians in War and Reconstruction
August 19, 2025
Leftist historians claim that mainstream historic accounts of the Reconstruction Era fail to give black freedmen enough credit for their postwar rebuilding
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Does Cutting Government Spending Risk a Recession?
August 19, 2025
Keynesian orthodoxy claims that cuts in government spending mean less “aggregate demand,” and less “aggregate demand” leads to recessions. Economic experience, however,
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Merger of Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Highlights the Need to End Amtrak Subsidies
August 19, 2025
The standard line for passenger rail travel in the US is that we need a government-subsidized entity like Amtrak because while there
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The Alaska Summit in Perspective: Steve Hanke on U.S. Strategy and Russia’s Position
August 19, 2025
In a candid interview, economist Steve Hanke calls the Trump–Putin Alaska summit “a photo-op,” arguing Russia already holds the upper hand in
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Murray Rothbard on Billionaires
August 19, 2025
According to Statista, there were 66 billionaires in the US in 1990. That number grew to 748 in 2023. Over the same
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Japan Rice Price Crisis Reveals a Twofold Policy Dilemma
August 19, 2025
Japan's economy is caught between inflationary monetary policy and powerful agricultural interests. There is no easy way out.