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Mayo: Why Loan Sharks Get
Five-Star Reviews — and Why It Matters
Njoya: Walter Williams and the Race Hustlers
Thornton: What is Old School Economics?
Sukoff: MMT Is Dead. It Must Now Be Buried for Good
Miltimore: How Javier Milei Is Turning Argentina's Economy Around
Hickman: Shocker — the World Economic Forum is full of racist hypocrites
Anderson: Carl Menger Explains Caitlin Clark's “Low” Rookie Salary and Her Monetized Popularity
Woods: Falling Prices Vs "Economists"
Hickman: The US Has 4-5 Years, At Best, To Turn The Ship Around
Hickman: The "Big Guy" is about to become a victim of his own tax proposal
Hickman: The White House Could Learn from 1774 France
Hickman: Javier Milei Delivers Argentina's First Surplus in Over a Decade, and US Media Is Silent
Hickman: Inspired Idiot of the Week: Lina "Genghis" Khan and the FTC
Miltimore: Argentina's Rampant Inflation, Explained (in One Chart)
Woods: Dumbest Headline of 2023
Phelan: The Depression of 1920-1921: Why Historians — and Economists — Often Overlook It
Schiff: Peter gets ChatGPT to change its mind about Minimum Wage and Unemployment
[related: Also see What Does ChatGPT Know about Money?]
Miltimore: The US Government's Debt-to-GDP Ratio Is Worse Than Greece's
Before the 2008 Crash (And It's About to Get Worse)
Block: Why Do We So Readily 'Kid Glove' Those Who Don't Pay Their Rent?
Carroll: Young Montana Entrepreneur Is Being Legally Barred from
Hauling Trash Because Established Players Don't Want the Competition
Matthews: Money Laundering: Another Noncrime Pursued by Criminal Authorities
Miltimore: Kevin O’Leary on Inflation: You Printed $7 Trillion in 30 Months. What Did you Think Would Happen?
Williams: A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
Tucker: To Be A Happy Person, Understand Marginal Utility
Paige: An Economic Perspective on Accusing Political Opponents of Racism
MacLeod: Inflation, the Price Level, and Economic Growth:
Everything the Elites Tell You about It Is Wrong
Reed: How Government "Helped Advance" One of Greatest Inventions of the 19th Century
The Torch: Socialism, Inflation – and Vikings!
Mills: "41 Inconvenient Truths on the "New Energy Economy"
Miltimore: "Our Fight Is Against Capitalism" and "the Patriarchy,"
Says Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike
Marques: The Fed Is Trapped: It Has No Room to Taper or Raise Rates
Cox: How Big Government Broke Higher Education: The Student Loan Bubble, Explained
Niemietz: You Can't Argue against Socialism's 100 Percent Record of Failure
Maharrey: Five Inflation Myths
Davies and Harrigan: The Cobra Effect:
Lessons in Unintended Consequences
Polumbo: St. Paul Just Implemented the Nation's Strictest
Rent Control Law. It's Already Backfiring Tremendously
Umashev: Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities
Koch: How Ford Created a Huge Market by Lowering its Prices
Miltimore: The New York Times Explains Why the Minimum Wage Should Be $0.00
French: Thanks to the Fed, the High-Risk, Small-Time Borrower Is Becoming a Thing of the Past
Carden: Prices Help Us Bear One Another's Burdens (Price Gouging)
Eifrig: Take This 30-Second Quiz Before Buying Your Next Stock
Elbaum: Why a $15 Federal Minimum Wage Would Be a Terrible Policy
McKay: Economics Is About Scarcity, Property, and Relationships
Worstall: Why Oxfam Is Getting It Wrong About Poverty
Money Crashers: What Does Gentrification Mean for
Neighborhoods? — Benefits vs. Negative Effects
Polumbo: New Report Shows How Congress Has Screwed Over Young People
Paul: The Federal Reserve is Getting Desperate
Bonn: What If the Fed Did Nothing?
Polleit: Hyperinflation, Money Demand, and the Crack-Up Boom
Tucker: Economics Is the Great Reality Check
Graham: Ready For An Era Of Ultralow Interest Rates? Careful What You Wish For
Miltimore: Why McDonald's Gave Up the Minimum Wage Fight
Thornton: Wine, Art, and Ferraris: The Bubble in Luxury Goods
Shostak: Falling Prices Are a Good Thing
Tamny: Absurd Net Neutrality Alarmism
Rothbard: Ten Great Economic Myths
Perry: 2018's New Minimum Wages Come with a Cost
Reed: Great Myths of the Great Depression
Jacoby: Obama Was Right, Health Insurance Should Be Voluntary
Friday: Government Recycling
Programs Waste Valuable Resources
Davis: Price Gouging Is Fine but Humans Are Better
Tucker: The Eugenics Plot of the Minimum Wage
Accad: Healthcare in the Crosshairs
Stöferle: The World Is Creeping Toward De-Dollarization
Lomborg: How alarmist rhetoric warps climate policy
Stossel: 'Stingy' Jeff Bezos
Berdine: Why Some Pharmaceuticals Are So Expensive
McMaken: Net Neutrality Strengthens Monopolies, Invites Corruption
Price: On Borrowed Time
Westley: The Flint Water Disaster Shows Why We Need Markets
Newman: Trump's Maoist Steel Obsession
McMaken: Will Our Grandchildren Work Only Four Hours Per Day?
Tucker: Hey New York Times, This Is Why Uber Is Awesome
Schiff: Puerto Rico Bankruptcy a Flashing Warning Sign for the US
Tucker: This Is Why Government Shouldn't Be Involved in Health Care
Tyler Durden: Philadelphia Soda Tax Leads
To 30-50% Plunge In Sales, Mass Layoffs
Jonathan Newman: Six Graphs that Reveal
Big Problems for Student and Auto Loans
Christopher Casey: Donald Trump's Whig Is Showing
Reisman: China et al. Are Not “Killing Us”
Harsh: Why Automation Will Create, Not Destroy, Jobs
Salles – Billions Gone: 2016 Olympics Venues in Brazil Are Now in Ruins
Klein: Free Trade versus “Free Trade”
Mueller: Venezuela's March Toward Default
Hunter: Manhattan Declares War on Homesharing
Boudreaux: The Tyranny of the Minimum Wage
Polleit: Central Banks May Choose Helicopter Money Over Negative Rates
Niño: Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela…and Everywhere Else
Williams: Economic Conspiracies
Méndez: 45 Years Without Gold
Raskin: How Government Ruined American Sodas
McMaken: Brazil's Olympics: Cronies Feast while the People Starve
Cordato: The Minimum Wage: Taking Away the Right to Work
Calton: Coca-Cola, Cronyism, and the War on Drugs
Williams: Thinking Beyond Stage One
McMaken: Job Growth Doesn't Mean We're Getting Richer
Leef: Government Loans Make College More Expensive, Worsen Income Inequality
Hollenbeck: Helicopter Money to the Rescue
Newman: Should People be Allowed to Work for $1 an Hour?
Williams: The Seen and Unseen
Ron Paul: Why I Have Hope
Polleit: How the Blockchain and Gold Can Work Together
Patrick Barron: In a Post-Boom World, Auto Prices Will Fall
Tommy Behnke: Is the Auto Loan Bubble Ready to Pop?
Ryan McMaken: The Failed Moral Argument for a "Living Wage"
Jeff Deist: Why Economics Matters
Ryan McMaken: Boston Pulls 2024 Olympic Bid, Taxpayers Win
Ian Daily: Greek Taxpayers Facing a Future of Debt Slavery
Snarr: Baltimore's Unemployed and the True Cost of Minimum Wages
St. Onge: Let's Hope Machines Take Our Jobs: We Want Wealth, Not Jobs
Shostak: Technology Needs Capital To Produce Economic Growth
Galles: Extorting Low-Income Individuals to Help "the Poor"
Stossel: What Creates Jobs
McMaken: Drought and the Failure of Big Government in California
Ritenour: Why Is the Fed Punishing My Parents?
Albright: Private Enterprise versus Free Enterprise
McMaken: How Truly Free Markets Help the Poor
Williams: Basic Economics
Hollenbeck: How Greek Default May Still Unravel the EU
Scribner: Bait & Switch: "Economic Development" in the States
Hollenbeck: Switzerland Frees the Swiss Franc
Steinreich: A Capitalist Christmas
Shostak: Should Economics Emulate Natural Sciences?
Lamberti: Getting Interest Rates Right (Is a Job For Markets)
Williams: Embarrassing Economists
Williams: Economic Freedom
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Sowell: The Ambassador and the Post Office
Sowell: The High Cost of Liberalism (Part I)
Part II || Part III
Gary Galles: Cognitive Dissonance on Minimum Wages and Maximum Rents
Dan Sanchez: How Inflation Picks Your Pocket
George Reisman: An Open letter to Thomas Perez, U.S. Secretary of Labor
Williams: Governed by Rules, Not Men
Thorsten Polleit: The High Price of Delaying the Default
Williams: Dependency, Not Poverty
Williams: Economics of Hate and Envy
Sowell: The 'Trickle-Down' Lie
Hawkins: Why America Is Headed Toward Bankruptcy In 13 Quotes
Williams: The Pope and Capitalism
Mark Thornton: The FDA: A Pain From the Neck to the Big Toe
Patrick Barron: How Much Longer Will the Dollar be the Reserve Currency?
Keith Weiner: Measured In Gold, The Story Of American Wages Is An Ugly One
Michael Snyder: Quantitative Easing Worked For The Weimar Republic For A Little While Too
Sowell: Minimum Wage Madness
Sowell: Unintended Consequences
Stossel: Trains To Nowhere
Bugos: Inevitable Inflation
Bernpaintner: The Truth About SwedenCare
Sowell: Economics vs. 'Need'
Jeff Jacoby: Washington Booms — Thanks to Other People's Money
David Howden: Japan's Easy Money Tsunami
Sowell: The Bullying Pulpit
James Freeman (Wall Street Journal): Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Harry R. Jackson, Jr.: Minimum Wage Hurts Unskilled Black Workers
Michael Snyder: The Big Banks Are Recklessly Gambling — With Our Money
Stockman: State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
John P. Cochran: Stopping the Keynesian Death March
Sowell: Can It Happen Here?
Sowell: Budget Politics
George Will: The Sequester: A Manufactured Crisis
Sowell: Prophets and Losses
John P. Cochran: The Ethics of Repudiation
Reisman: Labor Unions, Thugs, And Storm Troopers
Mac Slavo: You Know How This Ends, Right?
Stossel: Charity Begins With Wealth Creation
Sowell: Taxing the Poor
Sowell: An Overdue Book
George Reisman: Post-Sandy: A Man-Made Disaster
Stossel: Greed
Barron and Bloom: A Golden Opportunity
Williams: Understanding Economics
Stossel: We Fund Dependency
Shostak: QE3: Sowing the Wind
Sowell: Capital Gains Taxes
Lessons to be learned from the financial crisis
Sowell: Risky Business
Williams: The Rich Don't Pay Enough?
Gary Galles: Buy Team America?
Percy L. Greaves, Jr.: What Is Economics?
Stossel: Myths We Live By
Sowell: Trashing Achievements
Stossel: First Jobs (Minimum Wage)
Gary North: Free Trade: The Litmus Test of Economics
James Miller: Why Gold?
Thorsten Polleit: The Fiasco of Fiat Money
Schiff: Trickle Up Economics
Williams: Immoral Beyond Redemption
Sowell: ‘Meaningful Work’
Schiff: The Golden Rule Reinterpreted
Moore and Williams: The Millionaire Subsidy Elimination Act
Williams: Good Economists
Christopher Westley: Unions and the Other Tiny Tim
Stossel: Let’s Give the Fed Some Competition
Stossel: Job Killers
Boudreax and Willams: How to Keep More Kids on the Streets
George Reisman: The Irrelevance of Worker Need and Employer Greed in Determining Wages
James Miller: Monoply Dentistry
David Howden: Deflation's Inflationary Source
Schiff: Keynesians Jump The Gun on Inflation
Sowell: A Defining Moment (Minimum Wage)
Williams: Presidential Nonsense — "You're-On-Your-Own Economics"
George Will: The Redistributionist Behemoth
Reagan: Americans Angry at Senate Sycophants
Williams: Economic Fairness
Stossel: Ten Years to Greece
Murray: Manhattan Moment: Here's The
Right Way To Do Regulatory Relief
Stossel: Blocking the Paths Out of Poverty
Rothbard: Smashing Protectionist "Theory" (Again)
Sowell: Numbers Games
Stossel: The Stupidity of ‘Buy American’
Rockwell: The State Is the 1 Percent
Stossel: Wall Street Protesters Half Right
Stossel: Government the Job Killer
Stossel: Government Makes Us Poor
Sowell: Stop Whining (Minimum Wage)
Schiff: How the Government Can Create Jobs (Minimum Wage)
David Lee: How Canada Escaped the Global Recession
Peter Schiff: There They Go Again
Philipp Bagus: Who's Afraid of Deflation?
Peter Schiff: The Fix Is In
Peter Schiff: Debt Deal is a Blank Check
Walter Williams: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer
Sowell: Debt-Ceiling Chicken
Peter Schiff: Don't Be Fooled by Political Posturing
Mark Thornton: Why Legalize Now?
Stossel: The Money Hole
Schiff: End Game
Stossel: Government Against Blacks (Minimum Wage)
Williams: Do We Deserve Our Fate?
Kohlmayer: Back to the Gold Standard
Mark Thornton: The Lehman Brothers Plan
Schiff: Raising the Roof on Debt
George Will: Obama's Anti-Business Stance
John Silveira: An American dollar worth two cents
J. Kevin Meaders: Charting the Course to $7 Gas
Iain Murray: The price of regulation – Anti-stimulus
Schiff: Late to The Party…Once Again
Williams: Eat the Rich
Kohlmayer: The Path to Prosperity...in 2040?
Kohlmayer: The Next Economic Meltdown
Kohlmayer: The Party of Big Government
Seth Lipsky: The Floating Dollar as a Threat to Property Rights
Williams: Economic Lunacy
Robert P. Murphy: What's Wrong With Government Debt?
Schiff: A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way
Schiff: The Two Faces of Ben Bernanke
Walter Williams: Public Employee Unions
Walter Williams: Self-Inflicted Poverty
Peter Schiff: A Mockery of a Sham
Essay: The Coming Collapse of the American Republic
by Vietnam veteran and former state senator Robert A. Hall
Peter Schiff: China's Inflation Problem Looms Large
Philipp Bagus: Will There Be QE3, QE4, QE5...?
Sowell: ‘Saving’ the Housing Market
Peter Schiff: Forever Stamps Tell Us Much
George Will: Tax-Reform Fundamentalist
Peter Schiff: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Stossel: Why Do The Poor Stay Poor?
Peter Schiff: More Stimulus Means Fewer Jobs
Michelle Malkin: Giving Thanks for American Ingenuity
Kohlmayer: Why Isn't Peter Schiff Head of the Fed?
Sowell: Deficit Reduction
Sowell: Guess Who?
Schiff: Keep Your Head Above Dollar
Stossel: Freer Is Better
Schiff: The Hail Mary
Williams: Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance
Williams: Something for Nothing
Schiff: Japan Intervenes to Bail Out America.com
Schiff: Flying Blind
But don't miss this: How Obama Thinks — Dinesh D'Souza
(This week's Forbes Magazine cover story)
Kohlmayer: The Main Thing
Sowell: Dismantling America (4 parts)
Don't miss this one: Fooled By Stimulus
Kohlmayer: The Death of the Dollar
Stossel: Private Enterprise Does It Better
Cap-and-Trade's Market Failure
Kohlmayer: Leviathan's Loot
The New Financial Regulation Bill: Hobbling a Housing Recovery
Walter Williams: Econonomic Stimulus Didn't Work Then, Either
Peter Schiff: The New Ideological Divide
Kohlmayer: America's Predicament
Walter Williams: Where Best To Be Poor
Walter Williams: Economic Myths, Fallacies and Stupidity
Kohlmayer: Greenspan's Call of Despair
Thomas Sowell: A Mind-Changing Page
Kohlmayer: The World's Money Problem
George Will: The Prosperity-to-Hysteria Two-Step
Thomas Sowell: The Real Public Service
Walter E. Williams: Free Markets: Pro-Rich or Pro-Poor?
Philipp Bagus: Have We Crossed the Point of No Return?

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