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No Surprise: Wall Street Wants to Raise the Target Inflation Rate above 2 Percent
Price inflation in the United States remains stubbornly high, with October's print at 7.7 percent. The Fed's preferred measure, so-called...
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How the State Seized Control of Marriage
State regulation of marriage—and the ensuing secularization of marriage that followed—is a historical development that was part of the larger trend...
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Central Banks: Profligacy in Lockstep
This article was originally published by Law&Liberty. The Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) financial statements for the nine months ending September...
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Mises’s Critiques of Social Darwinism and of the Concept of Class Struggle
In his 1922 book, Gemeinwirtschaft, Ludwig von Mises unmasks the intellectual distortion that is social Darwinism. Based on determining the...
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Economic Progress and Economic Decay: North versus South
While high-quality automobiles and other manufactured goods are being produced in the Southeast, northeastern states like New York are falling...
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The “Barbarous Relic” Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today’s
One of history’s greatest ironies is that gold detractors refer to the metal as the barbarous relic. In fact, the...
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January 6 Trials Remind Us Why We Must Abolish Seditious Conspiracy Laws
The January 6 trials remind us violence against a person or property should be prosecuted as exactly that, and not as...
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Total Employed Workers Fell Again in November as Savings and Incomes Fall
From March 2022 to November, the number of total employed persons has only increased by 12,000 people meaning there are fewer...
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Last Day to Double Your Gift!
Dr. Gary Schlarbaum, one of our generous supporters, has again offered to match donations received through December 11. That means...
Read moreAn Economist Examines US Foreign Policy and Finds It Wanting
Economist Christopher Coyne of George Mason University uses economic logic to expose the follies of militaristic US policies overseas. Original Article: "An...
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