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Reshore Now Available for Purchase

February 18, 2025 1

Excerpt Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable . . .

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New Report: Punishment Deters Illegal Immigrants

October 1, 2018 0

A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that punishing illegal aliens for crossing the border dramatically reduces the risk of recidivism—they are less likely to try crossing the border . . .

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Report: Most Americans Skeptical of Trade’s Benefits

September 29, 2018 0

Most Americans Support Trade Theoretically, but Don’t See Practical Benefits New public opinion data from Pew Research finds that while Americans support global trade in principle, many are skeptical of its practical benefits—particularly regarding job . . .

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America's rate of fiber optic penetration is half the OECD average
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AI Will Create Jobs, Not Kill Them

February 4, 2025 16

The global artificial intelligence (“AI”) arms race heated up when China’s DeepSeek was released to the public on January 20.  A few days later, Alibaba released its AI which allegedly surpasses DeepSeek across the board. . . .

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Covid-19 Proves that Economists Know Nothing

May 11, 2020 3

The International Monetary Fund anticipates that the economic fallout from Covid-19 will plunge the world into a recession, the likes of which we have not experienced since the Great Depression.  This seems increasingly likely. Over . . .

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Electoral Alchemy: How the Democrats Create New Voters

February 26, 2019 0

Legend says a humble French scribe named Nicolas Flamel (d.1418) discovered the philosopher’s stone—the alchemical secret to physical transmutation. To immortality itself. After turning a half-pound of mercury into gold, fear consumed Flamel: what man . . .

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America's rate of fiber optic penetration is half the OECD average
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AI Will Create Jobs, Not Kill Them

February 4, 2025 16

The global artificial intelligence (“AI”) arms race heated up when China’s DeepSeek was released to the public on January 20.  A few days later, Alibaba released its AI which allegedly surpasses DeepSeek across the board. . . .

homo economicus and the myth of the rational consumer
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Covid-19 Proves that Economists Know Nothing

May 11, 2020 3

The International Monetary Fund anticipates that the economic fallout from Covid-19 will plunge the world into a recession, the likes of which we have not experienced since the Great Depression.  This seems increasingly likely. Over . . .

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Why Socialism ALWAYS Fails: Political Iatrogenics & Causal Opacity

March 22, 2019 0

Please subscribe on my new YouTube channel. Don’t forget to support me on Patreon & follow me on Twitter.  This channel & website are reader-funded. From Political Iatrogenics: Socialism is a political philosophy predicated upon interventionism.  It’s all about taking . . .

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Electoral Alchemy: How the Democrats Create New Voters

February 26, 2019 0

Legend says a humble French scribe named Nicolas Flamel (d.1418) discovered the philosopher’s stone—the alchemical secret to physical transmutation. To immortality itself. After turning a half-pound of mercury into gold, fear consumed Flamel: what man . . .

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