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Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates?

2024-02-26

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Javier Milei Understands the Road to Serfdom

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

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What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

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The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

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The “New” South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don’t Look for Things to Improve

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

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How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

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Highway Robbery Continues to Be the Law of the Land

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you sit behind a steering wheel. Between 2001 and 2014, lawmen seized more than $2.5 billion in cash from sixty thousand travelers on the nation’s highways—with no criminal...

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Who Hijacked Our Free Will?

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Imagine someone giving a State of the World address that begins with a reminder that people possess free will and ought to be doing a better job of exercising it. This could possibly raise doubts about the speaker’s mental stability—at least until the talk went into the dark details of civilization’s condition.

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Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC?

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

The “One-China” policy assumes Taiwan to be a runaway province. The people of Taiwan, however, see their country as sovereign, and their reasons have merit. Original Article: Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC?

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What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Another Pentagon audit, another massive failure. But the Pentagon's problems are not just simple accounting. They reflect the reality of an unaccountable rogue empire that tries to prop up the US empire. Original Article: What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much

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The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

School choice would seem to have benefits, but as Thomas Sowell says: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Enthusiastic “school choice” proponents forget that with government money comes government control. Original Article: The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice

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Javier Milei Understands the Road to Serfdom

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Javier Milei is trying to undo the damage created by nearly a century of socialism in Argentina. Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek were good teachers. Original Article: Javier Milei Understands the Road to Serfdom

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Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates?

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Some economists believe that the balance of payments is what determines currency exchange rates. In fact, exchange rates are always about the purchasing power of some currencies relative to others. Original Article: Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates?

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How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

In 2022, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used political favors and government grants to maneuver thousands of workers into jobs producing electric trucks. But consumers aren’t interested. Original Article: How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers

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The “New” South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don’t Look for Things to Improve

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

While South Africa’s political authorities pursue genocide accusations against other countries, those same leaders are destroying the nation’s economy and basic infrastructure. This is a failed state. Original Article: The "New" South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don't Look for Things to Improve

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After Trump, Then What?

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

There will be life after Trump one way or another, but in the long run, it seems as though the ruling party always wins. Original Article: After Trump, Then What?

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Highway Robbery Continues to Be the Law of the Land

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you sit behind a steering wheel. Between 2001 and 2014, lawmen seized more than $2.5 billion in cash from sixty thousand travelers on the nation’s highways—with no criminal...

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War Guilt in the Middle East

2024-02-26

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2024-02-26

[A selection from Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967.] The chronic Middle East crisis goes back – as do many crises – to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over. But, at the same time, the British government, with characteristic double-dealing, was promising Arab Palestine as a...

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War Guilt in the Middle East

2024-02-25

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2024-02-25

[A selection from Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967.]The chronic Middle East crisis goes back – as do many crises – to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over. But, at the same time, the British government, with characteristic double-dealing, was promising Arab Palestine as a...

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No, the Civil War Did Not Forever Settle the Matter of Secession

2024-02-24

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2024-02-24

There are many arguments against secession. Some of them are quite prudent, such as those that simply contend that national separation may not be a good idea at this time.  Many others are premised on the refusal to acknowledge the human right known as self-determination. This argument is wrong and immoral, and is nothing more than the traditional imperialist-colonialist argument repackaged for modern audiences.  Perhaps the worst...

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