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Remittances: Illegal Immigration’s $30 Billion HIDDEN TAX

April 16, 2019 0

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Why a Carbon Tax Will Actually RAISE CO2 Emissions

April 7, 2019 0

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Andrew Yang’s Universal Basic Income is DOOMED to FAIL

April 1, 2019 0

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Covid-19 Proves that Economists Know Nothing

May 11, 2020 0

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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Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter

February 13, 2019 0

Steve Hanke recently set out to prove “why President Trump’s trade message and protectionist policies are rubbish” in a Forbes article. Instead, the Johns Hopkins University economist exposed himself as a word-mincing, logic-twisting sophist—just like every other intellectual . . .

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America as O-Ring

February 11, 2019 0

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven astronauts were killed. Eyewitness Frank Mottek described the scene: Just then we both stood up and looked up at the shuttle making its way farther and . . .

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Covid-19 Proves that Economists Know Nothing

May 11, 2020 0

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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Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter

February 13, 2019 0

Steve Hanke recently set out to prove “why President Trump’s trade message and protectionist policies are rubbish” in a Forbes article. Instead, the Johns Hopkins University economist exposed himself as a word-mincing, logic-twisting sophist—just like every other intellectual . . .

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