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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
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California economist and resident/victim William Anderson joins us to talk about the absurdity of California’s bullet train plan, and how it ignores economic realities.
Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon did the same thing—and...
Lately, James Lindsay has burned much of his credibility in attacking largely non-interventionist right-wingers as “Woke Right.”
The Fed is now hemmed in by a rising risk of stagflation. It doesn‘t know where the economy is headed, or is unwilling to...
The US gold reserves in Fort Knox are a legacy of the time the US government confiscated private gold and reneged on its promises...
Organized labor, which long has been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, is being courted by the MAGA Republicans trying to bolster their image...
Tom DiLorenzo, Jonathan Newman, Timothy Terrell, and Jason Jewell spoke on promising alternatives to state-controlled education this past weekend in Tampa. Listen to there...
“The state is the ultimate villain in economic stories, disrupting voluntary trade and imposing unnecessary controls.”
“The percentage of Americans who have confidence in higher ed has dropped from 65% a decade ago to the low 30s today.”
“The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that...
“Universities are nurseries of socialism, but there’s always a remnant of young people who resist the statist propaganda.”
Universities are incubators of socialism because they are themselves socialist institutions funded by taxpayers with Rube Goldberg-style incentive systems.
Joe Stiglitz is a man with a large ego who believes he holds a special knowledge about economics. In his latest book, however, The...