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March 2, 2021
Post-Covid Policy Advice from Ludwig von Mises for Developing Countries
The policy paradigm that he lays out there is as applicable and relevant to lesser developed economies today as when he wrote this monograph in the mid-1940s
Government & Politics
February 24, 2021
Covid-19 Relief Bills to Cost $41,036 Per U.S. Household
The federal government has passed five laws to address the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of government-mandated lockdowns
Education
February 23, 2021
Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity
The fixation on equity is a loser for all concerned
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Government & Politics
February 8, 2021
The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism
The news has been filled with additional information on the oppression and persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority in the western region of China known as Xinjiang
Economy
February 2, 2021
Who Does A Minimum Wage Hike Really Help — The Poor, Or Those Who Push It Out Of Self-Interest?
Employers who already pay more than the increased federal minimum wage also gain from increasing the labor costs of rival employers in their region.
Economy
February 1, 2021
GameStop: All the Bigs Will Do Anything to Stay Big - and Screw We the Littles
We all saw what happened last week with the GameStop short squeeze incident

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Economy
March 2, 2021
Post-Covid Policy Advice from Ludwig von Mises for Developing Countries
By Richard Ebeling
The policy paradigm that he lays out there is as applicable and relevant to lesser developed economies today as when he wrote this monograph in the mid-1940s
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February 24, 2021
Covid-19 Relief Bills to Cost $41,036 Per U.S. Household
By James Agresti
The federal government has passed five laws to address the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of government-mandated lockdowns
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February 23, 2021
Equity = Inequality, Discrimination and Mediocrity
By Larry Sand
The fixation on equity is a loser for all concerned
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February 8, 2021
The Uyghurs as Victims of Chinese National Socialism
By Richard Ebeling
The news has been filled with additional information on the oppression and persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority in the western region of China known as Xinjiang
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February 2, 2021
Who Does A Minimum Wage Hike Really Help — The Poor, Or Those Who Push It Out Of Self-Interest?
By Gary M. Galles
Employers who already pay more than the increased federal minimum wage also gain from increasing the labor costs of rival employers in their region.
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February 1, 2021
GameStop: All the Bigs Will Do Anything to Stay Big - and Screw We the Littles
By Seton Motley
We all saw what happened last week with the GameStop short squeeze incident
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January 26, 2021
Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism
By Richard Ebeling
Joe Biden has come out of the starting gate with a slew of executive orders and planned legislation for the Democrat-controlled Congress to pass
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January 7, 2021
Carl Menger and the Sesquicentennial Founding of the Austrian School
By Richard Ebeling
At a time when a wide variety of misguided and wrong-headed economic ideas are swirling around the arenas of public policy, it is worth taking note of 2021 being the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian School of Economics
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December 11, 2020
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board: Fraud Hidden in Plain Sight
By Samantha Fillmore
This year has been wrought with financial turmoil for nearly all Americans
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December 2, 2020
Dr. Walter E. Williams, R.I.P.
By Joseph Bast
Dr. Walter Williams, a distinguished economist and long-time friend and advisor to The Heartland Institute, died December 2. He was 83.
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November 17, 2020
Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
By Richard Ebeling
Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics?
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November 4, 2020
Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
By Richard Ebeling
A number of European governments are reinstituting degrees of new social and economic lockdowns in the name of slowing down a new wave of Coronavirus cases
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November 3, 2020
And the Election Winner is . . . Inflation in a Landslide
By Christopher P. Casey, CFA
Regardless as to which candidate secures the Presidency on November 3rd (or some subsequent date), the administration must cope with unprecedented federal debt.
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October 28, 2020
Unmasking Paul Krugman’s Misrepresentation of Ayn Rand
By Richard Ebeling
He claimed that the U.S. has suffered from almost 9 million Coronavirus cases and experienced 230,000 deaths all because Ayn Rand and libertarians in general teach a philosophy of misplaced “freedom”
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October 21, 2020
Government Policies Have Worsened the Coronavirus Crisis
By Richard Ebeling
There is no doubt that 2020 has become a unique event in almost everyone’s life due to the Coronavirus and the response of almost all governments everywhere in the world
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October 14, 2020
The Pandemic or the Lockdown: Which Has Been Worse?
By Daniel Sutter
The COVID Tracker website reports 201,000 deaths through October 4 for a value of $2 trillion using the VSL
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September 9, 2020
Is the Ninth Circuit Court More Conservative and Constitutional Than the Supreme Court?
By Seton Motley
The Year of Our Lord 2020 – has been a long stretch of very bad road
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September 8, 2020
America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
By Richard Ebeling
The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”
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September 1, 2020
Are Democrats Trying to Spark a Violent Revolution—or Just Accidentally Doing It?
By Justin Haskins
These actions don’t merely represent protests run amok — America is now in the midst of a left-wing revolution
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August 25, 2020
Crisis, Leviathan, and COVID
By Daniel Sutter
The policies of the COVID-19 lockdown were not without historical precedent
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