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The easiest way to raise taxes? Let inflation rip. The more inflation, the more government gains—ordinary people lose as a result.
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K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)
California’s Gov. Newsom should take a cue from Argentina’s Javier Milei. He took over a nation in worse financial straits than California—then reduced state spending, cut in half the number of government ministries, and halted new infrastructure projects. It’s working.
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Richard K. Vedder (Minding the Campus)
Why are the most disruptive pro-Palestinian protests, with the most troubling anti-Semitic overtones, concentrated at the richest campuses, led by the most privileged students? Why are we (and big donors) subsidizing these shenanigans?
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Ivan Eland (Responsible Statecraft)
There has to be a better alternative to the hawkish internationalism of Biden and Trump’s equally aggressive Jacksonian nationalism. A newfound modesty and restraint in U.S. foreign policy might be just the ticket. Global economic multipolarity makes this possible—unless we are hooked on self-assertion.
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Volume 27, Issue 24: June 11, 2024
John C. Goodman (Forbes)
The easiest way to raise taxes? Let inflation rip. The more inflation, the more government gains—ordinary people lose as a result.
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On Monetary Growth and Inflation in Leading Economies, 2021-2022
Relative Prices and the Overall Price Level
Relative Prices and the Overall Price Level
By Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE
K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)
California’s Gov. Newsom should take a cue from Argentina’s Javier Milei. He took over a nation in worse financial straits than California—then reduced state spending, cut in half the number of government ministries, and halted new infrastructure projects. It’s working.
READ MORE »Richard K. Vedder (Minding the Campus)
Why are the most disruptive pro-Palestinian protests, with the most troubling anti-Semitic overtones, concentrated at the richest campuses, led by the most privileged students? Why are we (and big donors) subsidizing these shenanigans?
READ MORE »Ivan Eland (Responsible Statecraft)
There has to be a better alternative to the hawkish internationalism of Biden and Trump’s equally aggressive Jacksonian nationalism. A newfound modesty and restraint in U.S. foreign policy might be just the ticket. Global economic multipolarity makes this possible—unless we are hooked on self-assertion.
READ MORE »
In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
By Christopher J. Coyne
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
Peter C. Earle
Craig Eyermann
Gabriel Gasave
