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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...
What a week! Before being accused of Trumpcheerleading, the elephant in the room must be acknowledged: the Federal Reserve, its role in the inevitable...
How should we approach the study of history? An unfortunate trend has been to implement “history by theory” in which practitioners take theories and...
In the 1870s and 1880s, and through the 1920s, it’s clear that many legislators and judges did not agree that birthright citizenship applied to...
Mainstream economists define “inflation” as general increases in consumer and producer prices. Yet, such a definition misses why prices increase in the first place...
Not only was Joe Biden a failed president domestically, but he also was a failure in his foreign policy. From sending troops to Haiti...
Pundits have labeled piggy banks small change, irrational and wasteful, “just sitting around doing nothing.” As usual, they are wrong.
How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were trying to push...
Without the discipline of profit-and-loss, the desires and goals of the bureaucrats, limited only by the prescriptions and budget of the legislature, necessarily guide...