economics

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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 13, 2019
  Contemporary news stories and political predators can be fist-to-palm infuriating, but, if we’re canny, they also can serve as “leap points”…
Nick Kangadis | February 7, 2019
How many examples does one need to understand that socialism doesn’t work? How about one more? Bloomberg reported recently that the last “pay-what-…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 6, 2019
Remember when medicine wasn’t used as a political lever or as cover for politicians issuing mandates and dictates? Admittedly, that was a long…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 2, 2019
Thomas Jefferson famously said that the “natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” So it’s nice to see a…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 25, 2019
    Reason’s Christian Britschgi just offered us a glimpse at retrograde economics. It’s happening – no surprise -- in Oregon, where, thanks to…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 18, 2019
Leave it to Liz “Faux-a-hontas” Warren to get fundamental facts about virtually anything embarrassingly wrong. Evidently not satisfied by making…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 18, 2019
Billy wants to take a bite out of the Big Apple's private property with the force of government action. "We will seize their buildings," he says…
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Eric Scheiner | December 21, 2018
With two years and $25 million of taxpayer money the Special Council Robert Mueller’s probe has yielded zero evidence of Russian collusion, that’…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 21, 2018
Thanksgiving. It wasn’t what many government school teachers claim. It wasn’t established because the Pilgrims wanted to “thank” the natives…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 30, 2018
Jaw-dropping in its seemingly limitless capacity to be inefficient, there’s nothing quite like the state to tell others how to “cut back on waste”.…
Ferlon Webster Jr. | September 25, 2018
September’s consumer confidence index hit 138.4. The highest it has been since it reached its all-time high of 144.7 in 2000. Economists expected…