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P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 25, 2019
One of the most important lessons in economics is to learn that human valuation is subjective. As a result, the only way we can find out how much…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 24, 2019
The term “exercise in futility” comes to mind -- among other, more colorful, expressions. But it sure is apt to see “researchers” at three tax-…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 18, 2019
Another state has joined the battle to free people from the oppression of the Federal Reserve. The New American’s Joe Wolverton II explains that a…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 6, 2019
The tragic-comic figure of Joe Biden presents a lot of paradoxes. On the one hand, he presents himself as “one of the people”, yet he’s just been…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 28, 2019
We’ve heard the expected: Don’t eat turkey on Thanksgiving, because one more turkey will require so much carbon-based energy Earth will tilt into…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 13, 2019
Thirty years ago, I watched on a small black and white television as East and West Berliners climbed over the thirty-year-old cement wall the…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 31, 2019
There’s nothing more pleasurable for “trick or treat” time – or anytime, for that matter – than spending some hours reading and listening to the…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 10, 2019
“Little Leviathan” -- the overbearing hand of regional government -- strikes again, and it offers everyone a larger lesson to take with them to their…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 17, 2019
  I always look orange. And so do you. The light is the worst. So said Donald Trump at a GOP gathering in Baltimore last week. Trump was…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 12, 2019
One of the first things instructors in the field of economics stress to students is that the goal of a productive economy is not to create “work” per…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 30, 2019
One of the oft-heard protestations statists offer when they attempt to debate folks who are pro-liberty is: “Who’ll build the roads?” The…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 28, 2019
If one didn’t know better, he or she might suspect Liz Warren’s advisors are trolling her. Just released on her sleep-inducing Twitter feed is a…