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Free Markets, Entrepreneurial Error, and the Nico Iamaleava Saga
College football has finally experienced an athlete‘s holdout in order to leverage a hoped-for payday. In the case of Nico...
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Trump’s Insane Tariff Policy
The last excuse that diehard defenders of President Trump’s tariff policies have advanced now lies in ruins.
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Zillow Forecasts Falling Home Prices
Zillow, which is famously bullish on housing prices, is now projecting that U.S. home prices will fall 1.7% between March...
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Trump Wants Even More Military Spending
Donald Trump says he plans for a big 12% jump in military spending, he has threatened war with Iran, and...
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Fancy Houses, Wealth Inequality, and a Lesson in Humility
We are bombarded with claims that capitalism causes inequality, yet what it really mean? In truth, in a free market...
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The Federal Government Is Still on Track for a $2-Trillion-Plus Deficit
It’s going to take a lot more than some trimming around the edges to change the federal government’s current trajectory...
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Fed Manufacturing Survey: New orders at lowest level since April 2020.
April 2025 Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey: "The index for new orders also fell sharply, from 8.7 in March to -34.2...
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Opponents of Big Government Need to Reverse the “Ratchet Effect”
Economist Robert Higgs described the "ratchet effect" in which government either creates a crisis or responds to one, leading to...
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The “Ratchet Effect”: Why It’s So Hard to Shrink the Government
Economist Robert Higgs described the "ratchet effect" in which government either creates a crisis or responds to one, leading to...
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