Jeffrey Miron At the risk of repeating myself: Set aside the legal issues raised by the US removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (but see here and here for perspectives…
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Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers of government.
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Chris Edwards We are seeing a remarkable cascade of fraud scandals in Minnesota. Program after program has been hit with taxpayer losses from organized scams in recent years. In the…
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Marcos Falcone The end of Nicolás Maduro’s tyranny is great news for Latin America and the world. For over two decades, the Venezuelan dictator and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, were…
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Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials…
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While most economists believe that central banks set interest rates, in reality, they are set by time preferences of individual actors in the economy. Central bank influences on interest rates…
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Where is the “duly elected” president we were told about? Turns out none of the US-supported leaders have enough public support to take power.
Jeffrey Miron The Trump administration recently initiated rulemaking to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Drugs in Schedule I are deemed to have no accepted medical purpose and…
The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.
Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials…