2023
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2023 1,127
December 2023
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Correcting Janet Yellen
- On Exceptions to the Case for a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Trade Is A Tool
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- By Itself?
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The End Is Near! (Just Kidding)
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Fritz Machlup (1902-1983)
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- Quotation of the Day…
- A Recent Conversation With a Non-GMU Graduate Student
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- There’s Truth in Tiebout
- Is It Beating a Dead Horse If the Horse Being Beaten Still Gallops?
- Yep 4
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Getting a Handle on Benefit-Cost Analysis
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Home Schooling
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Defending Globalization
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- More on Income
- Quotation of the Day…
- Unrealized Gains Aren’t Income
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Racist America?
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Growth Cannot Be Promoted by a Government “Moonshot”
- A Contribution to Sound Economics Education
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- What Might Have Been
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- Walter Williams
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- Quotation of the Day…
November 2023
- “Theoretically Impossible” vs. “Practically Unlikely”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Trade Is A Technology
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Regulation (or Not) of Expression and Emissions
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Worried About the Cleanliness of American Households?
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Who’s “Anti-American”?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Opposition to Progressivism Isn’t the Equivalent of Trumpism
- Quotation of the Day…
- Expression Affects Third Parties
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Reality of Communism … and of Capitalism
- George Selgin on the New Deal and Recovery (and Relief and Reform)
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Hayek and His ‘Constitution of Liberty’
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Protectionism Assaults Producers
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Protectionism Is An Unjust Assault On Fellow Citizens
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Goals of Industrial Policy Are Indeed Too Much to Ask
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Sohrab Ahmari Should Read More Widely or Carefully
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Phil Magness Provides Further Evidence of the Corruption of the Academy
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Any Such ‘Misinformation’ Is What Economists Call “Inframarginal”
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
October 2023
- Lockdowns Were Anything But “Prudent and Essential”
- A Silver Lining
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Emoting Is Easier Than Thinking
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Responding Further to Fallacies Spread by Oren Cass
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Antitrust Action Against Google Isn’t Justified
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Ian Fillmore Is an Awestruck
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The Awestruck and the Awws
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Sharing prosperity”
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Problem Isn’t Free Trade
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On James Buchanan, Kenneth Elzinga, and Antitrust
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Kvetching
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Dan Klein in the Wall Street Journal on the Censoring of Science
- More from Thomas Sowell on Social-Justice Fallacies
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On the Meaning of “Deindustrialization”
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Follow the Rules
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Some facts about income inequality”
- A Conversation With John J. Miller About Adam Smith
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Reality Doesn’t Change Simply By Being Repeatedly Misrepresented
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Ultimate Knowledge Problem
September 2023
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Economically ‘Absorbing’ Immigrants
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Yet More On the Trade Deficit
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Curious Task of Economics
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- I Repeat Myself
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- Quotation of the Day…
- People Who Worry About the Trade Deficit…
- Responding to Robert Lighthizer
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware Being Confused By Accounting Conventions
- Quotation of the Day…
- Exploring EconTalk: Charles Calomiris on the Financial Crisis (2009)
- Quotation of the Day…
- An Application of Occam’s Razor
- Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- More on Angela Davis
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- Quotation of the Day…
- James Buchanan Rightly Opposed UCLA’s Hiring of Angela Davis
- Quotation of the Day…
- Market Competition Is a Process of Creativity and Discovery
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Decrying the Infantilization of ‘Higher Education’
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Defending Globalization
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Defending Globalization
- Trump Has No Idea What Made America Great
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Unseen and Unsightly Costs of the War on Drugs
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Tariffs Reduce Domestic Supplies and Raise Prices
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Reality of Regulation by Government
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Wall Street Journal: “Learning to Love Insider Trading”
- Bobby McCormick, R.I.P.
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Reality Really Is Really Complex. Really.
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- Quotation of the Day…
August 2023
- Trade Policy and Total Employment
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Trump’s Ignorance of Trade is Everestian
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “More questions for redistributionists”
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On the Rise In America of Maternal Mortality
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Further Thoughts on Industrial Policy
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Steven Koonin on Uncommon Knowledge
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- A Powerful Weapon to Suppress China’s Military Might
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Robert Ekelund (1940-2023)
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- Quotation of the Day…
- An Open Letter to Lina Khan
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Wages Are Payments for Services Rendered
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Great Enrichment Enriched From Its Start
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- A “Climate Psychology Certificate Program”?
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Snowflake America
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Burden of Persuasion Should Be On Those Persons Who Propose Interventions
- More Humility, Please, About Climate-Change Policies
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- Quotation of the Day…
- (Some of) What ESGers Don’t Understand
- Apples Must Be Compared to Apples and Not to Angels
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Questions for redistribution’s proponents”
- A Note on the Knowledge Problem
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- The Government Ain’t Us
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Ignorance or Cunning?
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- Quotation of the Day…
July 2023
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- In Defense of My Defense of Parking Lots
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- A Law & Economics Center Event With the Great Bruce Yandle
- In Praise of Parking Lots, or Paradise Has A Price
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Blindness of Industrial Policy
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- An Entrepreneurial Idea Is an Asset, Not a Source of Monopoly Power
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Statrix
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- A Law & Economics Center Webinar With Bruce Yandle
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- In Defense of Allowing Collusion
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bhattacharya and Kulldorff on the War Against Covid
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- ‘I’ve Not Read Adam Smith, But I Know that You – Who Have Read Him – Get Smith Wrong’
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- More On Adam Smith’s ‘Exceptions’ to His Case For Unilateral Free Trade
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- U.S. News & World Report: “Obama’s Misleading Minimum Wage Statistics”
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- That’s Prohibited by the 13th Amendment
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Knowledge Problem Doesn’t Disappear Just Because It’s Ignored
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Advocates of Minimum Wages…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Do You Have a Right to a Yo-Yo?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Who’d a-Thunk It?
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Adam Smith
- What “Social Dislocation”?
- Oh That No One Would Ever Have Embarked Upon ‘Balance of Trade’ Accounting
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Repeal the Jones Act
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Sigh 2
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Wise Reflections on China
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- Quotation of the Day…
June 2023
- On Today’s Ruling On Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness’
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- I Was Mistaken…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Phil Magness Exposes As Shoddyship Some So-called “Scholarship”
- Take Responsibility
- Make of This What You Will
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Reality Is Far More Complex Than Politicians Pretend
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Is This a Spoof?
- Let’s Dethrone the “Balance of Payments”
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Economic Reasoning Shifts the Burden of Persuasion Onto Opponents of a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Worrying About the ‘Balance of Trade’ Is Like Worrying About Witches
- On Evidence of the Economic Consequences of a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Pilkington Is Mistaken About Trade Deficits
- Avoid Expertolatry
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Votes FOR and Votes AGAINST
- A Confused Review of Sam Gregg’s ‘Next American Economy’
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- Quotation of the Day…
- “Shoddy, Shoddy, Shoddy”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Why Do Genius Angels Need Government Power?
- Quotation of the Day…
- Oh, And Naturally He Also Calls for Industrial Policy
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- On the Relevance of Economics
- Social Security and Medicare Are Going Broke
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Soiled by Socialism
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Rubio Is Wrong
- Reducing CO2 Concentrations In the Atmosphere Is Not An End In Itself
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Price Controls Are Government-Mandated False Advertising
- Vernon Smith On Price Controls
- Price Controls Are Not Justified by Monopoly Power
- Quotation of the Day…
- More on the Absurdity of Price Controls
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Socialism Is Bad For the Environment
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Some Adam Smith Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Creative Destruction Is Not An Externality, Part 1
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Industrial Policy Would Ensure Failure
- A Speculative Thought
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
May 2023
- Continuing to Get Straight the Facts About the American Economy
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Minimum-Wage Legislation Came From a Bad Place
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Thoughts on Immigration
- The Public’s – and the Media’s – Economic Understanding Remains Primitive
- Only Airheads Believe That the Economy Is Well-Served by ESG Investing
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Getting Straight the Facts About Americans’ Economic Fortunes
- The Gall
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- Quotation of the Day…
- More On America’s Mythical “Deindustrialization”
- America Has Not Deindustrialized
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The NatCons Are Deeply Confused
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- The ‘Theory’ of “Greedflation” Is Rank Nonsense
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- The Super Market
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- The Supermarket
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Busting Depression myths”
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Rather than Issue ‘Baby Bonds’….
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- Quotation of the Day…
- On Wartime and Postwar Prosperity
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware of “Common Good Capitalism”
- Quotation of the Day…
- In Defense of My Intrepid Mercatus Center Colleague
- Hail to Forever-Anonymous Leaders!
- Boudreaux and Zywicki on Hayek
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Boudreaux and Perry on the Myth of a Stagnant Middle Class
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Befuddling
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Michael Lind Slays A Minimum-Wage Straw Man
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Gotta Mention the Iceberg
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Productivity Is Flat (Thus Explaining Flat Wages) While Productivity Is Rising (Thus Explaining Unjust Worker Exploitation)
- But Then Again, Washington DOES Endlessly Issue Commands
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Oren Cass Again Grossly Understates the Rise In Ordinary Americans’ Wages
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Common-‘Good’ Statism
- Negative-Productivity Administration Officials
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- Quotation of the Day…
- A New Study of Industrial Policy
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- “Common-Good Capitalism” Is Really “Person X’s-Good Statism”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
April 2023
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- There Is No Saving Industrial Policy
- It’s Not Just An Austrian Position
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Ian Fillmore on Industrial Policyists
- Some Thoughts on A Twitter Thread
- Protectionism Is Indeed Economic Parasitism
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- All They Can Think Of Is Centralized Control
- No, Industrial Subsidies Do Not Benefit the Country As a Whole
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Griswold and Freytag On the So-Called “Trade Deficit”
- Common Errors Committed by “Common Good Capitalists”
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- On Brooke Group, Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (U.S. Supreme Court, 1993)
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- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Phil Magness Debates Woody Holton on the ‘1619 Project’
- Protectionists Are Losers
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- To Repeat: Industrial Policy Is Naive and Blind Arrogance
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Why America Runs Trade Deficits
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Hmmm…. I Wonder Why People Are Losing Confidence in the Media
- Industrial Policy Does Indeed Fall Victim to the Knowledge Problem
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Debunking Yet Another False Tale Told About American Trade Deficits
- Quotation of the Day…
- Which Proponents of Capitalism Believe Themselves NOT to Promote the Common Good?
- Scott Lincicome’s Memo to Industrial Policy Proponents: Political Reality Isn’t Optional
- Quotation of the Day…
- Beware of ESG Investing
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- An Open Letter to P.M. Sunak
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Boudreaux and Irwin on the Repeal of the Corn Laws
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- One Good Outcome of the Great Depression
- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- There Is No “Will of the People”
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Consumption Is Indeed – As Adam Smith Said – “the Sole End and Purpose Of All Production”
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- If Solitary Confinement Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment … Aren’t, Also, Lockdowns?
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- A Review of Elizabeth Popp Berman’s “Thinking Like an Economist”
- On Dollars In Global Trade
- Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
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- A Note from a Reader
- Quotation of the Day…
March 2023
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- Some Links
- Quotation of the Day…
- Signs of Hope
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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- Quotation of the Day…
- Bonus Quotation of the Day…
- I’m Sick of Having My Intelligence Insulted
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- Trade Is Amazing: It Empowers Us to Turn Almost Anything Into Almost Anything Else
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- Taxing An Intelligent Person’s Patience
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- On the Banana Republic Practice of Civil Asset Forfeiture
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- Statement of Commitment to Academic Freedom and to Intellectual Merit
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- An Open Letter to a Protectionist
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- A Telling Tale of Toil
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- Good Sense Spoken to Congress by Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Marty Makary
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- The Economic Ignorance Is Stunning
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- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Impressive material progress”
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- The Glories of Globalization
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- The Infantile Woke
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- Twitter Admits That It Received “Legal Demands” from the US Government to Censor Covid Information
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- Still Trying To Open John Tamny’s Eyes To the Harms Unleashed by Deficit Financing
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- The Intellectual Weakness Is Abundant and Evident
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- An Economics Pop Quiz
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- Hygiene Socialism Isn’t “Authoritarian Capitalism”
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- In Defense of Steven Koonin
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- Hipopolorum and Lopopohirum
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- Or Maybe the Woke Are Full-On Comatose
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- The Great Ken Elzinga Speaks at GMU Econ
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- A Tendentiously Alleged Connection Between Trump and the Kochs
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- Some Questions for a Covid Commission
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- Be Grateful to Live In A World In Which First Responders Are Paid Less Than Professional Athletes
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- Bill Maher Eviscerates the Woke
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- The Typical Immigration Restrictionist Is No Better At Economics Than Is the Typical Protectionist
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- Broken Compass
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- I Say Again: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
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- John Stossel on Paul Ehrlich and the Doomsters
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- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Coase’s valuable insights into market economies”
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- The Primacy of the Consumer-Welfare Standard
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- Art Carden and Larry White on W.H. Hutt
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- “I, Pencil’s” Point
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- Don’t Ban Noncompete Clauses
- On the Comparative Advantage At Improving Comparative Advantages
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- More on Leonard Read’s “I, Pencil”
- Intellectuals Who Can’t Read
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- A Bot Is Better Than ‘Education’ Bureaucrats
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- Jerry Z. Muller on Jacob Soll on Adam Smith
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- Non-covid Excess Deaths
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- Daniel Hannan on Free Trade
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- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “If tomorrow is irrelevant”
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- Such Is Some Modern “Scholarship”
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- The United States Certainly Did Have Lockdowns
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- Some Racist That Hutt!
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