Why does such a strong love of freedom appear both among towering intellects and among those of far more modest cognitive means?
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Jeffrey A. Singer Last September, I wrote about how New York City residents face the highest combined state and local excise taxes on cigarettes in the country, pushing the average…
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The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts.
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From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about “small industry” between big business and propertyless workers.
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We now live in a fundamentally altered landscape where old certainties no longer confer fitness.
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A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?
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Jennifer Huddleston and Christopher Gardner At this year’s Silicon Flatirons Flagship Conference, yours truly, Jennifer Huddleston, took part in a lighthearted debate on whether we should ban chatbots. The debate…
Mainstream economics and finance theories hold that markets immediately adjust to new information. While market prices do reflect available information, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) fails to explain the boom-bust…
The boom-and-bust cycle isn’t limited just to so-called advanced economies. It also has become a way of life in the economies of tropical countries and other emerging economies.
When we think of the need for more electricity to meet a weather-related surge in demand, we think more generation of power. However, entities like Bitcoin, which is a huge…
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